Shell Programming and Report Generation

	Topic Outline
•	BASH and pdksh Shell Scripts
•	User-defined Variables
•	Looping Statement Constructs
•	Decision Statements
•	Using export and expr
•	"Here Documents" in Scripts
•	Logical Test Constructs
•	Functions
•	Pipes
•	Writing Scripts with Special Parameters and Variable Substitutions
•	Korn Shell Parent-Child Process
•	Defining and Using Arrays
•	The gawk Utility
•	Formatted Output Using printf

Shell Programming and Report Generation

4 days

Description

This course uses lecture and lab work to demonstrate techniques used to develop advanced shell and reporting type procedures under Linux.

Audience

Linux users, system administrators, or programmers.

Prerequisite

Linux Utilities and Commands or equivalent experience.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

use Linux BASH shell and pdksh (public domain Korn shell) to maintain files

control usage of shell command scripts

generate reports using the gawk facility