Korn Shell Programming Essentials

    

Summary:
This course is designed to help technical staff learn the essential skills needed to maintain, write and debug UNIX Korn shell shell scripts. Both the widely available Korn Shell 88 and newer KornShell 93 are covered, with hands-on programming excercises highlighting techniques for each shell. This three day class may also be condensed to a two day delivery if it immediately follows the three day ProTech "UNIX Systems Basics I" class. Topics 2 (Review of UNIX Essentials) and 3 (Review of the vi editor) are covered on-demand if the attendees UNIX skills are rusty.

Duration:
3 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is intended for technical staff that develops and maintains UNIX Korn shell programs either for personal productivity, as an aid to application development or for advanced UNIX system monitoring and maintenance.

Topics:

• Introduction to Shell Programming
• Review of UNIX Essentials
• Review of the vi editor
• Korn Shell Programming Essentials

Prerequisites:
The student should have completed the ProTech UNIX Systems Basics I course or possess equivalent knowledge including an understanding of the UNIX file system, permissions, basic file management commands, use of the vi editor and familiarity with using a UNIX shell interactively.

Last Update: February 8, 2012