About Course
This course will teach you how to use shell scripts and utilities for practical system administration of AIX or other UNIX operating systems 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 You should have An understanding of programming fundamentals variables flow control concepts such as repetition and decision A working knowledge of AIX including the use of the vi editor find and grep commands Students without this experience should attend AIX Basics AN10G IBM Power Systems System p AIX
Prerequisite Courses
Skills Gained
Who Can Benefit
- Course Outline
- 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