HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview
This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Posix Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of HP-UX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into HP-UX shell scripts.
Skills Gained
The delegate will practice:
- Using the shell command line editor
- Backing up and restoring files
- Scheduling background jobs using cron and at
- Using regular expressions
- Editing text files with sed
- Using file comparison utilities
- Using the head and tail utilities
- Using the cut and paste utilities
- Using split and csplit
- Identifying and translating characters
- Sorting files
- Translating characters in a file
- Selecting text from files with the grep family of commands
- Creating programs with awk
Who will the Course Benefit?
Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts using advanced text handling facilities.
The
HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered in the HP-UX Introduction Course. Some shell programming experience to the level covered in HP-UX Shell Programming is also necessary.
Course Objectives
To provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard HP-UX programming and development tools.
Pre-Requisite Courses
- HP-UX Introduction
- HP-UX Shell Programming
Follow-On Courses
- HP-UX System Administration
- Oracle SQL
NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: REVIEW OF SHELL FUNDAMENTALS
Session 2: USING UNIX SHELLS
- Command line history and editing
- The Korn and POSIX shells
- The Bash shell
- Command aliasing
- The shell startup file
- Shell environment variables
Session 3: REDIRECTION, PIPES AND FILTERS
- Standard I/O and redirection
- Pipes
- Command separation
- Conditional execution
- Grouping Commands
- UNIX filters
- The tee command
Session 4: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES
- Archive devices
- The cpio command
- The tar command
- The dd command
- Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
- Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using cpio
Session 5: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING
- Starting background jobs
- Background tasks and the nohup command
- Process priorities and the nice command
- Job control
- Scheduling jobs with the at command
- Scheduling jobs with the cron command
- Exercise: Running background jobs
HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 6: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION
- Regular expressions
- Extended regular expressions
Session 7: SEARCHING FILES FOR PATTERNS
- The grep family of commands
- The grep command
- The fgrep command
- The egrep command
- Exercises: Search for patterns with grep and egrep
Session 8: THE STREAM EDITOR - sed
- Introduction and command line syntax
- The sed program structure
- sed program processing
- Use sed commands
- sed addresses
- sed instructions
- Hold and get functions
- Advanced flow control
- Exercises: Simple text processing with sed
- Exercises: Create sed scripts to edit files
Session 9: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES
- Compare two files with the cmp command
- Compare two files with the comm command
- Compare two files with the diff and sdiff commands
- Compare large files with the bdiff command
- Exercise: Identifying file differences
Session 10: FILE MANIPULATION COMMANDS
- The head and tail commands
- The cut command
- The paste command
- The pr command
- The split and csplit commands
- Exercises: Manipulate text with cut and paste
- Exercises: Manipulate text with head and tail
Session 11: IDENTIFY AND TRANSLATE CHARACTERS
- od - octal dump
- Use cat to display non-printing characters
- The expand and unexpand commands
- The tr command
- Exercises: Translating text files with tr
- Exercises: Display non-printing characters
HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 12: SORTING FILES
- The sort command
- Specify sort keys with -k
- Sort by column positions
- The uniq command
- Exercises: Sorting text files
Session 13: INTRODUCTION TO THE PATTERN SCANNING UTILITY - awk
- Introduction and command line syntax
- The awk program structure
- Use regular expressions
- Operators
- Simple patterns
- Extended patterns
- Comments
- Special patterns (BEGIN and END)
- Program variables
- Built-in variables
- User defined variables
- Mathematical operators
- Enhanced printing
- Handling user variables
- Exercises: Create simple awk scripts
- Exercises: Create a simple awk script using variables
Session 14: awk PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES
- Program control structures
- The if construct
- The while and do ... while constructs
- The basic for construct
- Associative array handling
- Functions
- Built in functions
- The system function
- The getline function
- User defined functions
- Exercises: Create an awk script using an associative array
- Exercises: Create an awk script using a for loop and if statement
- Exercises: Create an awk script using functions
