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Redhill
Two days
All levels
A practical introduction to writing scripts using the Bourne shell under any Linux operating system. Applicable for those using the Korn shell as well.
Programmers developing programs under UNIX.
Administrators / support personnel who wish to find out more about the workings of Linux or write simple utility programs.
Linux Fundamentals
2 days
What does the shell do? How are commands executed? Different shells. what is a shell script? Comments, creating shell scripts.
Setting variables, using variables, set, scope, export, sourcing, environmental variables, read.
$0 to $9, $#, $* and others. shift parameter substitution.
The test command The if statement while loops for loops The case statement.
Redirection of errors, here documents, quoting.
The expr command.
The terminfo database, The tput command.
Shell functions, getopts, xargs, debugging shell scripts, portability issues. Extras in the Korn shell.
The time command, performance tips.