AIX Training Overview

This course teaches the IBM AIX computer professional (user, systems administrator, application/system programmer) the techniques needed to develop advanced shell and reporting type procedures under AIX. Techniques in the major shells will be shown. Note that all Unix systems support all of the techniques in this course.

AIX Training Prerequisites

This is an advanced IBM AIX course. It is assumed that participants either have attended the AIX Basics course, or have equivalent experience with a Unix system.

AIX Training Course duration

This course normally requires three (3) days, approximately 50 % lecture, and 50 % lab time.

AIX Training Course Objectives

Each student will be able to use AIX awk, nawk, Korn and Bash shell features to maintain collections of files, control usage of shell command scripts, and generate reports using the (n)awk facility.

AIX Training Course outline

Writing Korn and Bash Shell Scripts

• Korn Shell environment variables
• User-defined variables
• Substitution of variables
• Command substitution in variables
• Decision statements
• Looping statement constructs
• typesetting variables for output
• typesetting integer variables
• using and defining functions
• accessing files' records using pipes
• accessing files' records directly with exec
• special parameter/variable substitutions
• Korn shell parent-child process communications
• defining and using indexed and associative arrays
• processing command line options
• socket level connections