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Course benefits
This course is highly recommended for support staff planning to progress into AIX system or network administration.
This course is also an ideal continuation to course AU213: Fundamentals of AIX and CDE for people wishing to use advanced AIX facilities.
The course incorporates extensive hands-on practical sessions, providing delegates with valuable, practical skills.
This course provides an accelerated introduction to the more advanced AIX tools and utilities and to AIX shell script programming. This course will allow you to increase your productivity with AIX by unleashing more of its capabilities.
AIX system administrators and users wanting to learn more about AIX and its powerful array of utilities.
Pre-requisites
Delegates will have attended course AU213: Fundamentals of AIX and CDE. Alternatively, delegates must have equivalent working experience with AIX.
Introduction
The AIX shells
Review of metacharacters, wildcards
STDIO, redirection, pipes
AIX shells
Bourne shell
C shell
Korn shell
The shell environment
Creating and managing environment variables
Subshells, exit codes
Process status and management
Using dot files
Text manipulation
Review of ed, vi, emacs editors
Advanced vi editing comands
Review of regular expressions
grep, egrep, fgrep
sort, cut, paste, uniq
Stream editing with sed
Translation using tr
commands, patterns, hold space
Shell script programming Applications for shell scripting
Example shell scriptsWriting and commenting scripts
Executing shell scripts
Control flow mechanisms
if, then, else, elif
for, while, until loops
Variables and arithmetic
Example scripts to take away
Extending the tool set
Advanced shell facilitiesSet, trap, breakeval, getops, tput Debugging shell scripts
awk programming
Actions, fields, variables
Control flow, passing parameters
Writing awk functions
Basic administration utilities
Scheduling tasks; at, cron
Disk space management: df, du
File backup and restoration Managing user tty settings
