Who Should Attend

This course is intended for software developers, administrators, and other users who want to acquire basic shell programming skills.

Prerequisites

A good understanding of the main commands and user applications in Linux and the Linux system administration.

What you will learn

The participants gain a solid basic understanding of shell constructs and concepts. They learn to create their own shell scripts, understand existing scripts, and adapt these to new requirements. The understanding of the basic shell constructs facilitates the accustomation to other shell variants (e.g. Korn or C shell).

Course Outline

• Configuration of the Bash
• Input and Output Channels
• Introduction to shell scripts
• Output from and input to scripts
• Arithmetic operations
• Conditional commands (if-then, case)
• Looping commands (while, until, for)
• Shell functions
• Handling of options in scripts (getopts)
• Trapping signals (trap)
• Creating selection menus with select
• Error analysis in scripts
• Graphical selection boxes (dialog)
  

Course Duration

Three (3) days

Course Schedule

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Course Materials

• Comprehensive course workbook/summary
• Course certificate of completion