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This two day course is being run 42 times between Thursday 16th February 2012 and Thursday 13th December 2012 in London, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh,

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Thursday 16 February 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 16 February 2012LeedsSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 23 February 2012BirminghamSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Monday 05 March 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 22 March 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 22 March 2012BristolSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 22 March 2012ManchesterSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 29 March 2012EdinburghSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 19 April 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Monday 30 April 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 17 May 2012LeedsSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 17 May 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 24 May 2012BirminghamSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 31 May 2012BristolSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 31 May 2012ManchesterSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 14 June 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 14 June 2012EdinburghSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Monday 25 June 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Monday 02 July 2012ManchesterSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 12 July 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 26 July 2012LeedsSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 26 July 2012BristolSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 02 August 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 02 August 2012ManchesterSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 09 August 2012BirminghamSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Monday 13 August 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 23 August 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 06 September 2012EdinburghSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 20 September 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 20 September 2012ManchesterSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Monday 24 September 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 27 September 2012LeedsSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 27 September 2012BristolSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 18 October 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 08 November 2012BirminghamSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 15 November 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 15 November 2012ManchesterSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Monday 19 November 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 22 November 2012EdinburghSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 29 November 2012LeedsSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 29 November 2012BristolSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
Thursday 13 December 2012LondonSave £79.50£715.50+VAT
 

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Summary: 

This course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing UNIX shell scripts Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. This course is not suitable for C shell programmers. The delegates will practise:

  • Writing simple scripts to enhance basic command output
  • Using the various shell quoting mechanisms appropriately
  • Manipulating shell variables and user-defined variables in scripts
  • Implementing conditional execution facilities
  • Using the shell's built-in loop constructs where appropriate
  • Writing scripts to trap user interrupts
  • Developing menu-driven shell scripts
PreRequisites: 

  • UNIX Introduction

Audience: 

Programmers, administrators and support personnel who need to understand existing shell scripts, automate procedures and write their own utilities.

The course assumes knowledge of the UNIX Operating System to the level covered in the Introduction to UNIX Course. Some programming experience may also prove advantageous.

Objectives: 

  • To provide the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs.

Course Contents - DAY 1

  • Course Introduction
  • Administration and Course Materials Course Structure and Agenda Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 6: CONDITION EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

UNIX Shell Programming Training Course

  • Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 7: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a guess-the-number game

Session 8: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 9: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 10: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Session 11: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays
  • Here Documents
  • Exercise: Create

Description: 

This course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing UNIX shell scripts Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. This course is not suitable for C shell programmers.

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