Solaris Shell Programming

This course is intended for people in roles such as:

• Administrator
• Database Administrator
• System Integrator
• Systems Administrator

Participants will learn to:

• Create scripts to automate system administration tasks.
• Set local and environmental variables.
• Automate tasks by using regular expression characters with the grep, sed, and nawk utilities.
• Create interactive scripts by using flow control constructs.
• Perform string manipulation and integer arithmetic on shell variables.
• Debug errors in scripts.

The Solaris Shell Programming course assumes knowledge of the Solaris Operating System to the level covered in the Solaris Introduction course. Some programming experience may also prove advantageous.

The topics covered in this course:

• Automate routine operations using loops
• Describe the fundamentals of UNIX shells, shell scripts, and scripting
• Set shell environment variables
• Search information using regular expressions
• Edit input streams using the sed editor
• Create scripts using the nawk programming language
• Include decision-making points within scripts using conditionals
• Perform multiple operations using interactive scripts
• Specify script options using the getopts statement
• Create advanced scripts using variables, parameters, and argument lists
• Automate tasks using functions
• Debug shell scripts using the trap command
• Develop some useful scripts for system administration-related tasks.