UNIX Power Tools

AUDIENCE: This course is for developers, application support or similar staff who need to gain a better understanding of UNIX based power utilities and be able to better use the tools and facilities offered.
PREREQUISITES: Basic UNIX literacy gained through regular use of a UNIX based system and attendance of UNIX The Essentials. Good skills with the vi editor are highly desirable.
DURATION: 3 days. Hands on.
OBJECTIVES: To provide the delegate with sufficient skills to be able use UNIX based tools and power utilities as an every day part of their job role. Advanced operations such as complex data handling, code maintenance and generation and the processing of large complex data sets would be typical tasks that attendees should be able to perform. Attendees return to their work environment better able to use UNIX based systems as a means to handle the data generated by their applications and systems or the maintenance of complex code sets.
COURSE CONTENT:
Identifying and Displaying Data
Searching and Replacing
Sorting Data
Simple Shell Scripts
sed - The stream editor
Data Handling Commands - tr, csplit, cut & paste, egrep
The Pattern Scanning Utility - awk
Code Maintenance and Generation Utilities - make and SCCS