Malcolm Kayser Computer Training Limited

Courses in Programming (including Cobol), UNIX, Linux, IBM Mainframe,
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UNIX/LINUX TOOLS AND UTILITIES

The main focus of this course is to cover two important and powerful UNIX utilities: sed and awk. As these utilities are a natural progression from using the UNIX tool grep, it is also included.

Audience

Users, Programmers and System Administrators who want to quickly solve an assortment of problems without recourse to any particular programming language.

Prerequisites

Experience of using everyday UNIX, AIX or Linux system tools, use of the vi or vim editor and some exposure to writing scripts. For those delegates without these skills, attendance of the Introduction to UNIX course, the Introduction to AIX course or the Introduction to Linux course is recommended. Attending the Korn Shell Programming course or the Linux bash Shell Programming course may also be beneficial.

Duration

2 days, hands-on.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course, the delegate will be able to:

Understand how regular expressions are used with some tools and utilities
Use grep for text, string and pattern matching
Use the stream editor sed to apply a series of edits to a number of files
Use awk to manipulate data and generate formatted reports

Course Contents

Miscellaneous UNIX Tools

Useful everyday tools

grep

Regular expressions
Substitution and global commands
Pattern matching

sed

Format of command
Operation
Format for addresses
Summary of commands
Simple commands
Appending and changing text
Inserting and deleting text
Substitution and translation
Printing
Reading and writing files
Branching
Multi-line commands

awk

Using awk
Patterns and Actions
Operation
Program format
Variables
Built-in variables
BEGIN and END
The printf statement
Functions
Passing parameters

page updated: 27/12/09

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