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"UNIX/Linux Utilities"
2 days
Next Public Offering: 3/18-3/19 Seattle |
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Course Description
This lecture/lab course shows the student how to harness the power of the GNU/Linux utility programs through interactive shell commands and shell or AWK scripts. The most important Linux utilities, including egrep, sed, dd, sort, tee, comm, tput, tail, find, and xargs are explained and illustrated in realistic programming examples. Students also learn how to do pattern matching using Regular Expression notation, and to write programs using the AWK language, an extremely easy but powerful predecessor to Perl.
Who Should Attend
System administrators, network administrators, data administrators, programmers, managers, clerical users, and others who wish to make the most of Linux. Anyone who needs to write new programs or maintain existing ones that automate routine tasks, validate data, generate reports, convert text files into other forms, or perform numerical analyses will benefit from attendance.
Prerequisites
Students should
be experienced with one of the following text editors: vi, emacs, or pico (or another locally available editor, for on-site classes).
Students should also be familiar with:
Previous
programming experience is very helpful,
but logically-minded individuals without
such a background may also benefit.
Author & Instructor
Dr. Tim Maher wrote a course on the Bourne shell for AT&T in the early 80s, and taught it for many years to AT&T's customers and employees. He has taught shell programming to literally thousands of students, and has written many sophisticated applications in shell languages. These include an eight-thousand line user interface used by students at U.C. Berkeley and the first source code beautifier for the C++ language (published in Dr. Dobb's Journal). Tim is a recognized expert on Shell Programming, and as founder and head of CONSULTIX, he regularly teaches courses on a wide variety of UNIX and Linux topics. Consultix instructors are renowned for their ability to communicate complex concepts in simple terms and to make the study of dry technical material enjoyable.Topics
| Text Processing | Number Crunching | Data Validation |
| Field Processing | File Conversion | Report Generation |
| Regular Expressions | Pattern Matching | AWK Programming | dd | sort | tee |
| comm | tput | tail |
| find | xargs | |
| sed | egrep | AWK |
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A former student says:
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Ken Meyer, Software Instructor, Seattle Central Community College Attended: UNIX Fundamentals |