Korn Shell Scripting and Awk Scripting

The Korn Shell (ksh) is one of the most powerful shells available across UNIX and UNIX-like systems. It improvises upon Bourne Shell (sh) and also incorporates features from C Shell. This course introduces how to work on Korn Shell and create shell scripts that weave programming logic around Linux commands.

Course Benefits

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
  • Use available Linux tools to filter data from flat file databases
  • Understand processes and their relationships, and how the shell launches commands as processes
  • Use appropriate operators to achieve any kind of redirection required
  • Configure the shell environment to suit the user's needs and also benefit shell scripts
  • Program the shell and write scripts to perform a variety of jobs by issuing a single command
  • Build programmable filters
  • Use sed to build custom filters
  • Use awk to build programmable filters
  • Develop awk scripts for data extraction and reporting

Target Audience

  • Freshers who have to work on UNIX/Linux
  • Developers, maintainers and administrators who use the Korn Shell and want to automate command execution or build powerful utilities

Prerequisites

  • Working knowledge of any UNIX-based operating system.
  • Knowledge of programming fundamentals

Course Duration

3 days