Korn and Bash Shell Programming

After completing this course, you should be able to:
Distinguish Korn and bash shell specific features
Use utilities such as sed and awk to manipulate data
Understand system shell scripts such as /etc/shutdown
Write useful shell scripts to aid system administration

This course is for support staff for AIX on POWER systems

You should have:

• An understanding of programming fundamentals: variables, flow control concepts such as repetitionand
• A working knowledge of AIX including the use of the vi editor, find andgrep commands.

Students without this experience should attendAIX Basics

• Basic shell concepts
• Flow control in a shell Script
• Functions and typeset
• Shell features such as arithmetic and string handling
• Using regular expressions
• Using sed, awk and other AIX utilities