Duration: 5 Days

This hands on course provides the skills needed to create and maintain shell programs used in managing and enhancing the operation of user environments for UNIX systems.

Prerequisites
It is recommended that individuals have at least two years experience using UNIX commands and operating environment.

Target Audience
System Administrators, System Engineers

Course Objective

• Introducing the Course Project
• Understanding how Shell programs works
• The differences between shells
• Debugging and troubleshooting
• Regular expressions

Course Outline

• Shell Programming Features
• Conditional Code
• Loops
• Text Processing
• Functions
• Command-line Parameters
• Advanced Scripting

Duration: 5 Days

This course is training for UNIX users who desire to increase their skill set to include basic UNIX System V Release 4 Operating System-based system administration and/or work effectively in a multi-vendor UNIX local or networked environment.

Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you have at least six months experience on a UNIX variant operating environment.

Performance-Based Objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Customize the Korn Shell environment.

• Build shell scripts in the Korn shell.
• Control the UNIX system.
• Manage UNIX user accounts.
• Manage system software in UNIX.
• Manage file systems in UNIX.
• Troubleshoot the UNIX system.
• Configure the UNIX client/server environment.
• Apply security practices to UNIX systems.
• Improve the UNIX system performance.

Course Outline
Lesson 1: Customizing the Korn Shell Environment
Lesson 2: Building Shell Scripts in the Korn Shell
Lesson 3: Controlling the UNIX System
Lesson 4: Managing User Accounts
Lesson 5: Managing System Software
Lesson 6: Managing File Systems
Lesson 7: Troubleshooting the System
Lesson 8: Configuring the Client/Server Environment
Lesson 9: Applying Security Practices to UNIX Systems
Lesson 10: Improving System Performance
Appendix A: Linux Process for Lesson 5: Managing System Software

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Overview
Students will learn the basic skills necessary to understand the structure of the UNIX operating system and to use the available utilities and commands to manage their personal file structures in the UNIX C Shell.

Course Content

• Unix Structure
• Getting Started
• Unix Command Line Structure
• System Resources & Printing
• Shells
• Special Unix Features
• Text Processing
• Other Useful Commands
• Shell Programming
• Editors
• Unix Command Summary