Self Paced Shell Scripting Online Training Modules Overview

UNIX Background

• Introduction about Operating System (OS)
• Introduction to UNIX
• List of UNIX vendors available in Market
• Introduction to various UNIX Implementations
• History of UNIX OS Evolution from 1969
• Open Source (vs.) Shared source (vs.) Closed source
• Is Unix Open Source software.

 UNIX (Vs.) LINUX

• LINUX OS background
• LINUX (vs.) WINDOWS
• Popular LINUX distributionsVendors
• Similarities between Unix & Linux
• Differences between Unix & Linux
• About POSIX standards.

UNIX System Architecture

• Hardware, Kernel, Shell, Utilities and User programs
• Layers in Unix OS
• Unix ServersDumb terminalsnodes.

UNIX Day-To-Day Used Commands

• System Information commands (uname, date, etc)
• Man command and User Related (w, who, etc)
• Terminal Related (stty, etc)
• Filter commands (more, less, etc)
• Miscellaneous commands (cal, banner, clear, etc)
• Viewing exit status of commands and Disk Related commands.

 UNIX File System

• InputOutput Redirection And Piping
• Introduction to Redirectionpiping, Output Redirection Example
• Input Redirection Example
• Error Redirection Example.

UNIX Processes

• Introduction to Unix processes
• Program (vs.) Process
• System processes & commands
• User processes & commands
• Finding processes information using ‘grep’
• Background & foreground processing
• Kill signal
• Setting process priorities
• Avoiding hang-ups using ‘nohup’

Job Scheduling

• Introduction to job scheduling
• Run jobs at regular intervals using crontab
• Run jobs at specific intervals using ‘at’.

UNIX Communication

• On-line communication using write, wall, talk, etc.
• Offline communication using mail, news, etc.

UNIX Environment Variables

• Introduction to ‘echo’ command
• System defined environment variables
• User defined environment variables
• Creating user defined environment variables.

 VI Editor

• Introduction to Visual Editor
• Understanding 3 basic modes of operations
• Cursor Movement commands
• Scrolling commands
• Editing text commands, Copying and pasting text
• Shell commands, Text Buffers, Search commands.

UNIX System Files & Default User Settings

• Introduction to system files (etcpasswd)
• Creating user aliases ($HOME.bashrc)
• Sourcing environment ($HOME.bash_profile)
• Logout action file ($HOME.bash_logout).

 UNIX Self Paced Shell Scripting

• Introduction to Shell
• Types of shells
• EvolutionHistory of various Unix shells
• Introduction to Self Paced Shell Scripting
• Difference between programming and scripting
• Steps in handling shell scripts
• Writing first shell script – “Hello World…!”.

Self Paced Shell Scripting Basic Examples

• Adding comments
• Displaying output to screen
• Variables declaration
• Arithmetic operations
• Read Input from command line
• Interactive Addition program
• Positional Parameters
• Command Line arguments
• Arithmetic operations using command line arguments
• Command line arguments using SHIFT operator
• Scope of Variables.

Conditional Statements

• Sequence control structure (vs.) decision-making structure
• If-then-if statement
• If-then-else-if statement
• If-then-if-else-if statement TEST command
• Case – esac statement
• String operations, Examples.

Flow Control Statements

• For Loop, While loop, Until loop, Loop nesting, Breakcontinue commands
• Examples on ForWhileUntil
• For + ls example
• While + case example
• If + grep example
• For + sed + awk example.

Compression & Archive Commands

• Introduction to Archiving
• Introduction to Compression
• Archive (vs.) compression
• Creating archives
• Compressing & uncompressing files
• Compressed Archives.

 Miscellaneous, But Useful Topics

• Transferring files between Unix servers using FTP
• Remote login to another Unix server
• Starting and shutting down the servers
• Writing C programs in Unix OS
• Compiling and debugging C programs in Unix OS.

 Advanced Self Paced Shell Scripting (SED, CUT)

• SED Introduction
• Difference between “” and ‘’, s for substitution
• SED Delimiters
• Using & as the matched string
• SED Multiple instructions
• Multiple instructions through script, Printing, Deleting in SED, cut, tr commands
• Lab Exercise

Advanced Self Paced Shell Scripting (AWK)

• AWK Introduction
• AWK Basic syntax & Examples
• AWK Inbuilt variables (FS, OFS, NR, RS, FILENAME), BEGIN, PRINT, END blocks in AWK
• Inbuilt AWK functions (length, Index, sub, substr, tolower, toupper, split), IF Condition, Loops (While, DO … WHILE, FOR), Break – Continue – Exit, Arrays
• Lab Exercises.

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SacrosTek Systems offer certification programs for Self Paced Shell Scripting. Certificates are issues on successful completion of the course and the assessment examination. Students are requested to participate in the real-time project program to get first-hand experience on the usage and application of the Self Paced Shell Scripting. The real-time projects are designed by our team of industry experts to help students get best possible exposure to the Self Paced Shell Scripting and its applications.