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AIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools

3 Day Course
Hands On
Code AASP

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Classroom Virtual Classroom Private Group - Virtual Self-Paced Online

Overview

This IBM AIX Advanced Shell Programming Tools training course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of AIX tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into AIX shell scripts.

Objectives

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

  • Backing up and restoring files with tar
  • Advanced tar commands
  • File compression
  • Scheduling background jobs with crontab and at
  • Comparing file contents
  • Splitting files based on content and context
  • Identifying and translating characters
  • Use og grep and regular expressions
  • Basic and advanced file editing with sed
  • Creating AWK program-files and scripts
  • Pattern matching with AWK
  • AWK variables, operators and arithmetic functions
  • AWK program control structures
  • AWK functions
  • AWK associative and multi-dimensional arrays
  • Various miscellaneous commands
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Target Audience

Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts and process text files using advanced text handling facilities.

Additional Information

  • Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
  • Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.

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Modules

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Backup and Restore Utilities (4 topics)

  • Archive devices
  • The cpio command
  • The tar command
  • The dd command

Background Job Scheduling (6 topics)

  • 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

Regular Expression Notation (2 topics)

  • Regular expressions
  • Extended regular expressions

Commands for Comparing Files (5 topics)

  • 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
  • Exercises: Identifying file differences

AWK Functions (3 topics)

  • AWK string functions
  • AWK length, tolower, toupper, index, sub, gsub, match, substr, split, sprintf, system and getline functions
  • Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions

AWK Arrays (3 topics)

  • AWK associative arrays
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports

Fundamentals of AWK (11 topics)

  • Basic AWK usage
  • AWK program-files
  • AWK scripts
  • AWK variables
  • Pattern matching with AWK
  • AWK extended patterns
  • AWK operators
  • AWK arithmetic operations
  • AWK output
  • Formatting output with printf
  • Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports

Splitting Files (2 topics)

  • The split and csplit commands
  • Exercises: Splitting files

Identify and Translate Characters (4 topics)

  • od - octal dump
  • Use cat to display non-printing characters
  • The expand and unexpand commands
  • The tr command

The Stream Editor - sed (8 topics)

  • 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

awk Program Control Structures (6 topics)

  • Program control structures
  • The if construct
  • The while and do ... while constructs
  • The basic for construct
  • Associative array handling
  • Functions

Miscellaneous (8 topics)

  • bc (calculator)
  • fuser (testing for files in use)
  • getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
  • printf (formatting screen output)
  • logger (script logging)
  • xargs (generating arguments for a command)
  • eval (re-evaluating variables)
  • Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Prerequisites

The course assumes knowledge of the AIX Operating System to the level covered in the AIX Basics Course. Some shell programming experience to the level covered in AIX Shell Programming is also necessary.

Additional Learning

The courses below may help you meet the knowledge level required to take this course.

Scheduled Dates

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Pricing

Different pricing structures are available including special offers. These include early bird, late availability, multi-place, corporate volume and self-funding rates. Please arrange a discussion with a training advisor to discover your most cost effective option.

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AASP
Virtual Classroom (London)
3 Days $1,615
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