Solaris Training : Solaris 11 shell and awk Scripting

Solaris 11 shell and awk Scripting

Solaris Training Overview

This course teaches the Solaris 11 professional (user, systems administrator, application/system programmer) the techniques needed to develop advanced shell and reporting type procedures under Solaris 11. Techniques in the major shells will be shown. All Solaris 11 platforms support the techniques in this course.

Solaris Training Prerequisites

This is an advanced Solaris 11 course. It is assumed that participants either have attended the Solaris 11 Operating System Essentials course, or have equivalent experience with a Solaris 11 system.

Solaris Training Course duration

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

Solaris Training Course Objectives

Each participant will be able to use Solaris 11, awk, nawk, BASH and Korn shell commands to maintain collections of files, control usage of shell command scripts, and generate reports using the (n)awk facility.

Solaris Training Course outline

Basics of Shell Scripting

Types of shell scripts
- driver
- complex
Available shells in Solaris 11
Developing a template
Adding documentation to shell scripts

Writing Korn Shell Scripts

BASH and 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 and floating point variables
the select construct (for menus)
using and defining functions
accessing files' records using pipes
handling signals with trap
defining and using indexed arrays

Writing Advanced Korn Shell Scripts

defining and using active variables
nameref variables (references)
defining and using associative arrays
accessing files' records directly with exec
special parameter/variable substitutions
Korn shell parent / co-process communications
adding option processing in shell scripts
accessing socket level TCP/IP connections

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