AN202 IBM Korn and Bash Shell Programming

5 Days

30 CPD hours

This course is for support staff for AIX on POWER systems

After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Distinguish Korn and bash shell specific features
- Use utilities such as sed and awk to manipulate data
- Understand system shell scripts such as /etc/shutdown
- Write useful shell scripts to aid system administration

This course will teach you how to use shell scripts and utilities for practical system administration of AIX (or other UNIX) operating systems.

Basic shell concepts

Flow control in a shell Script

Functions and typeset

Shell features such as arithmetic and string handling

Using regular expressions

Using sed, awk and other AIX utilities