| Duration: 5 days (4 days for experienced programmers) |
| Delivery: Instructor led classroom |
| Student Activities: Hands-on labs |
| Course Description: Prior Unix experience required either by having
attended a Unix Fundamentals class or equivalent hands-on experience.
Requires knowledge of the Unix vi editor and basic shell command line syntax, including shell metacharacter interpretation (i.e. variable substitution, command substitution, file name generation, etc.). Introduces students to the necessary skills used to create shell programs (scripts). This course focuses on the Bourne shell (sh), the Korn shell (ksh) and the "Bourne Again" shell (bash). |
| Includes: Student Guide "Unix Shell Programming" by Walt Uotinen of Top Shelf Technologies with lab exercises and solutions as well as sample files. |
| Table of Contents (106-KB PDF format) |
| Sample Chapter (143-KB PDF format) |
| Setup script (56-KB Unix Korn shell script) - Includes sample files and exercise solutions. |