SUN-250
Shell Scripting for Solaris Administrators


Length: 5 Days

Tuition: $1995


Overview
Essential shell scripting skills to help administrators automate daily tasks as well as automatic report generation


Prerequisites
SUN-100 or similar experience using Solaris.


Topics
  • Introduction to bourne, korn, and C-shells
  • Standard system commands and options to build scripts with.
  • Basic shell script construction
  • Use of variables
  • Regular expressions
  • Grep, sed, and awk utilities
  • Advanced shell script construction
  • Metacharacters and redirection
  • Functions and Arrays
  • Flow Control with conditionals and looping
  • Set and traps


Skills Gained
In this course, students will learn to:
  • Learn the differences between the standard shells.
  • Use standard commands such as cut, sort, ls, find, paste and more as the foundation of your scripts
  • Construct and name basic shell scripts and use built in debug tools
  • Learn to use regular expressions and variables to extract and format data from files or system status commands
  • Expand on the regular expressions using grep, sed and awk to create custom reports, manipulate multiple files, or query information from flat file databases
  • Create small scripts called functions within a script which can be used to reduce the amount of code writing required.
  • Use flow control constructs to loop a script continuously or until certain parameters are met.
  • Use the set command to change variable values and traps to prohibit premature script completion.


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