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 course for Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, or HP-UX, or have equivalent system time and experience with the interactive shell(s).

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 participant will be able to use Unix shell (common features, Korn (ksh 88 and ksh 93) commands to maintain collections of files, control usage of shell command scripts, and generate reports using the awk facility.

HP-UX Training Course outline

Shell Scripting Common Features

    Shell environment variables
    User-defined variables
    Substitution of variables
    Looping statement constructs
    Decision statements
    Command substitution in variables
    Using eval
    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

Advanced Features in Korn Shell Scripts

    Options processing
    active variables and tied functions
    associative arrays
    creating and using name reference variables
    techniques comparison to Perl

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
    if and for constructs
    Re-direction of awk input and output
    defining and using arrays
    obtaining command line arguments with awk
    special awk signature lines