Course Description - Shell Scripts in UNIX and Linux

One Day

Using prepared notes and exercises, this module explains how to use the powerful programming facilities in the command execution system (the shell). The shell is a standard feature of all flavours of UNIX including Solaris, AIX and Linux. There is also a version available for Windows.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to create their own commands and write scripts to automate labour-intensive manual tasks.

Details

• simple scripts
• variables
• arguments
• programming constructs - decisions and loops
• file permissions
• the environment - current directory, open files
• helper commands - echo, test, expr and basename

Prerequisites