HP-UX Training :Fundamentals of Unix Shell Programming and Report Generation

Fundamentals of Unix
Shell Programming and Report Generation (Supporting Platforms: HP-UX)

HP-UX Training Overview

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

HP-UX Training Prerequisites

This is an advanced Unix course. It is assumed that participants either have attended the Fundamentals of Unix (Basics) course, or have equivalent experience with a Unix system.

HP-UX Training Course duration

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

HP-UX Training Course Objectives

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

HP-UX Training Course outline

Common Features of Shell Scripting

Common Shell environment variables
User-defined variables
Substitution of variables
Looping statement constructs
Decision statements
Command substitution in variables
Using export and expr
Handling signals with trap

Writing Korn 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
the select construct (for menus)
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 arrays

Using the awk Utility to Generate Reports

awk utility calling techniques
Patterns and actions
Using the BEGIN and END patterns
Using awk built-in variables
Procedure-defined variables in awk
Formatted output using printf