| Tutor: |
Alan Dix
| | Audience: |
(i) UNIX users wanting to do rapid data manipulation without programming
(ii) UNIX users and administrators wishing to automate repetitive tasks or produce packaged scripts for themselves or other users.
| | Style: |
Combination of short lectures and hands-on sessions.
| | Content: |
Shell command line: redirection, pipes and here files, environment variables, quotation and wildcards, background processes. Command line tools (wc, cut, paste, tr, sort, find etc) and how to combine them. Shell scripting: command line arguments, control structures, use of test vs. case, tricks and standard shell structures. Programmable/scriptable tools: overview (sed, awk, perl) and focus on awk.
| | Objective: |
The attendee should leave the course able to perform non-trivial tasks on-the-fly at the UNIX command line, to understand and modify existing shell and awk scripts and to write their own.
| | Prerequisites: |
Some familiarity with using the UNIX shell for simple tasks.
| | Length: |
one day
| | Note: |
The course is based on Bourne Shell because even at sites where C Shell is standard, it is frequently /bin/sh which is used for scripts.
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