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HP-UX Posix Shell Programming

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HP-UX Posix Shell Programming Course Overview
This Hewlett Packard HP-UX Posix Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical
experience in developing and writing shell scripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the
main program control structures.

The course also gives practical experience using a range of HP-UX tools to manipulate text and incorporate into HP-UX
shell scripts.

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

Writing simple scripts to enhance basic command output

Using the various shell quoting mechanisms appropriately
Manipulating shell variables and user-defined variables in scripts
Implementing conditional execution facilities
Using the shell's built-in loop constructs where appropriate
Writing scripts to trap user interrupts
User defined Functions
Developing menu-driven shell scripts
Backing up and restoring files with tar
Advanced tar commands
File compression
Scheduling background jobs with crontab and at
Comparing file contents
Splitting files based on content and context
Identifying and translating characters
Use og grep and regular expressions
Basic and advanced file editing with sed
Creating AWK program-files and scripts
Pattern matching with AWK
AWK variables, operators and arithmetic functions
AWK program control structures
AWK functions
AWK associative and multi-dimensional arrays
Various miscellaneous commands

Who will the Course Benefit?

Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts and process text files using
advanced text handling facilities.

The HP-UX Posix Shell Programming course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered
in the HP-UX Introduction course. Some programming experience may also prove advantageous.

Course Objectives
To provide the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs and to make effective use of a wide range of
standard HP-UX programming and development tools.

Requirements

The HP-UX Posix Shell Programming course assumes knowledge of the HP-UX Operating System to the level covered
in the HP-UX Introduction course. Some programming experience may also prove advantageous.

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Note:
This 5-day HP-UX Posix Shell Programming course combines the HP-UX Shell Programming and HP-UX Advanced
Shell Programming Tools courses. If the dates allocated to this 5-day course are not suitable, then this course can also
be booked by selecting dates from both the HP-UX Shell Programming and the HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming
Tools courses. The Shell Programming course should be attended first and may start on either a Monday or a Thursday.

Pre-Requisite Courses
HP-UX Introduction

Follow-On Courses
HP-UX System Administration
Oracle SQL

Notes:

Course technical content is subject to change without notice.

Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and
practicals often span sessions.

HP-UX Posix Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

Administration and Course Materials

Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

Basic Unix commands

General commands
File and directory handling commands
Filename generation characters
I/O Redirection features
Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

What is a shell script?

Development guidelines
Creating and editing shell scripts
Naming and storing shell scripts
Executing shell scripts
Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

Environment variables
Local variables
Assigning values to variables
Assessing variable values
Using quotes
Delimiting variable names
Echo control sequences
Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

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Using the expr command

Using the (( )) notation
Exercises: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

The read command

Command line arguments
Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 7: ADDITIONAL KORN, BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

Other test notations

Default and substitute variables
Exit status codes
Exercise

HP-UX Posix Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 8: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

The while loop

The until loop
The for loop
The while true and until false loops
Loop control commands
Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a 'for' loop
Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the 'while' loop

Session 9: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

The case statement

Menu driven applications
Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 10: FUNCTIONS

What is a function?
Syntax
Examples
Creating a Function Library
Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 11: INTERRUPT HANDLING

Interrupt signals
Trapping interrupts
Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Session 12: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

The exec commands

The includes notation
More about loops
Arrays
Here Documents
Exercise: Create a here script

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HP-UX Posix Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 13: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

Backing-up and restoring files

Basic and advanced use of tar
Compression utilities gzip, bzip2, zip and compress
Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
Exercises: Compressing files

Session 14: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

Scheduling jobs with the cron command

Scheduling jobs with the at command
Exercises: Running background jobs

Session 15: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

Compare two files with the cmp command

Compare two files with the comm command
Compare two files with the diff and sdiff commands
Compare large files with the bdiff command
Exercises: Identifying file differences

Session 16: SPLITTING FILES

The split and csplit commands

Exercises: Splitting files

HP-UX Posix Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 17: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS

od - octal dump
Use cat to display non-printing characters
The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
The tr command for character translation
Exercises: Translating characters with tr

Session 18: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW

Standard regular expressions

Extended regular expressions

Session 19: THE STREAM EDITOR sed

sed command line syntax

sed script files
sed command processing
sed addresses and simple instructions
sed pattern space and hold space
Grouping sed commands
Hold and get functions
Advanced flow control
Exercises: Text processing with sed

Session 20: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK

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Basic AWK usage

AWK program-files
AWK scripts
AWK variables
Pattern matching with AWK
AWK extended patterns
AWK operators
AWK arithmetic operations
AWK output
Formatting output with printf
Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports

HP-UX Posix Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 21: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

The BEGIN and END functions

The AWK if construct
The AWK else if construct
The AWK while construct
Other program control statements
The AWK break, continue and exit statements
User defined functions
Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures

Session 22: AWK FUNCTIONS

AWK string functions

AWK length, tolower, toupper, index, sub, gsub, match, substr, split, sprintf, system and getline functions
Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions

Session 23: AWK ARRAYS

AWK associative arrays

Multi-dimensional arrays
Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports

Session 24: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

bc (calculator)
fuser (testing for files in use)
getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
printf (formatting screen output)
logger (script logging)
xargs (generating arguments for a command)
eval (re-evaluating variables)
Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Pre-Requisite Courses
HP-UX Introduction

Follow-On Courses
HP-UX System Administration
Oracle SQL

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Venues And Dates

Barbican (London) Training Centre

01 July
19 August
14 October
09 December

Additional Resourcing
If you have a number of delegates to train then this course can be conducted on your premises or at a venue of your
choice as a Closed event. Closed courses can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your business and can prove to
be cost effective, convenient and relevant.

There are options to take this as a Virtual course. Please contact us to discuss your specific requirements and to
arrange a date to run this course as a virtual event to suit your schedule.

Note

This 5 Day course combines the HP-UX Shell Programming and HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools courses. If
the dates allocated to this 5 Day course are not suitable then this course can also be booked by selecting dates from
both the HP-UX Shell Programming and the HP-UX Advanced Shell Programming Tools courses. The Shell
Programming course should be attended first and may start on either a Monday or a Thursday.

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