CU011 - UNIX Tools

Length: 3 Days

Description

Course Objectives

1. state the UNIX "tool" philosophy;
2. construct and use regular expressions;
3. select, format, and process data selected from specified files;
4. display and print information from files;
5. use the sed command to apply editing commands to files from an input stream;
6. use the awk programming language to scan files and process patterns;
7. use the commands learned in the course to interact with the shell to create user tools for information processing.

Course Materials

1. UNIX Tools Student Guide and handouts.

   Prerequisites

   1. CU001 - Fundamentals of UNIX
   2. CU002 - Bourne Shell Programming or CU003 - Korn Shell Programming

   Course Content

   1. COURSE OVERVIEW
      1. The tool philosophy
      2. The UNIX file system
      3. The system and user environments
      4. UNIX shell constructs
   2. UNIX REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
      1. What are regular expressions?
      2. Where are regular expressions used?
      3. Regular expression characters and construction
      4. Regular expression examples
   3. ADVANCED EDITING USING VI
      1. ex sub-editor
      2. Replacement strings
      3. Substitution examples
      4. Shell interface and filtering
      5. Editor options
      6. Abbreviations
      7. Macros
   4. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL COMMANDS
      1. The wc, file, find commands.
   5. FILE EXAMINATION/PRINTING
      1. Displaying and Printing Files
         1. The cat, pg, more, tail, head, tee, and lp commands
      2. The grep family
   6. FILE MANIPULATION COMMANDS
      1. File Formatting
         1. The nl, fold, fmt, newform, pr, and tr commands
      2. Field-Oriented Commands
         1. The cut, paste, sort, join, uniq, split, and csplit commands
      3. File Comparison
         1. The diff, comm, sum commands.
      4. File Compression
         1. The pack and compress commands.
      5. File Archiving
         1. The cpio and tar commands.
   7. THE STREAM EDITOR (sed)
      1. What is sed?
      2. sed commands, actions and syntax
      3. sed pattern space and addresses
   8. THE AWK LANGUAGE
      1. Overview of awk
      2. Format of an awk program
      3. Records and fields
      4. Variables, patterns, operators, conditional statements, and loops
      5. String manipulation
      6. Mathematical Functions
      7. Arrays
      8. Shell Interaction
   9. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
      1. Shell script constructs
      2. Useful shell script commands
      3. Example programs and case studies
   10. COURSE CONCLUSION

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