Length of Course: 3 days

Overview:
This three-day programming class provides system administrators the knowledge to create Bourne Shell scripts. Students will develop experience to automate system tasks via hands-on programming exercises in conjunction with the lecture.

Prerequisites:
Prior to attending this class, students should have the following experience:

• Complete the Solaris System Administration course or equivalent experience.
• No programming experience required.

Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• define the features of the Bourne Shell
• use regular expressions
• use useful UNIX utilities such as grep, sed and awk
• use Bourne Shell variables
• use command long arguments within a Bourne Shell script
• use flow control statements such as if, while and for
• use conditional expressions such as numeric and string comparison, file testing and the outcome of UNIX commands
• handle errors within a Bourne Shell script
• create and use Bourne Shell functions
• create file handles to read and write directly to files
• handle UNIX signals