IBM Systems: AN202G

AN202G: Korn and Bash Shell Programming


             Recommended Duration: 5 Days
Skill Level: Intermediate
Cost: $5,000 (b/GST)
(ENROL NOW)
Available for Web and Classroom Trainings.

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

Training Path to IBM AIX Users and System Administration


Audience


This course is for support staff for AIX on POWER systems.


Prerequisites


Student 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.

Course Agenda


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


Course Overview


Day 1

  • Basic shell concepts

Day 2

  • Flow control in a shell Script

Day 3

  • Functions and typeset

Day 4

  • Shell features such as arithmetic and string handling

Day 5

  • Using regular expressions
  • Using sed, awk and other AIX utilities