Korn and Bash Shell Programming

This course will teach you how to use shell scripts and utilities for practical system administration of AIX (or other UNIX) operating systems.

You should have:

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

Students without this experience should attend AIX Basics (AN10G).

You will have a firm grounding in the Perl language and be able to:

• Write Perl scripts for data-processing, system administration, and other applications
• Use modules from the Perl Module Library to improve your efficiency

This advanced-level course is for support staff for AIX on POWER systems.

• 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