Format

Classroom

Duration

7.0 Day(s)

Description

This course will teach you how to use shell scripts and utilities for practical system administration of the IBM RISC System/6000.

Audience

Support staff of AIX for RISC System/6000.

Prerequisites

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. Students without this experience should attend AIX Version 4 Basics Plus.

Objectives

On completion of this course, participants are expected to be able to:
* Distinguish Korn Shell specific features
* Use utilities such as sed and awk to manipulate data
* Understand system Shell Scripts such as /etc/shutdown
* Write a useful Shell Script to aid system administration.

Contents

Basic Shell concepts
* Flow control in a Shell Script
* Functions and typeset
* Shell features such as arithmetic and string handling.