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Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools

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The Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of Linux tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into Linux shell scripts.

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Last updated : 23/07/2026
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Duration:

24.00 hours

19.5 CPD hours

Overview:

The Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of Linux tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into Linux shell scripts.

Description:

The Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of Linux tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into Linux shell scripts.

Course Outline:

Day 1

Course Introduction

- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

- Backing-up and restoring files
- Basic and advanced use of tar
- Compression utilities gzip, bzip2, zip and compress
- Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
- Exercises: Compressing files
Session 2: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

- Scheduling jobs with the cron command
- Scheduling jobs with the at command
- Exercises: Running background jobs
Session 3: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

- Compare two files with the cmp command
- Compare two files with the comm command
- Compare two files with the diff and sdiff commands
- Compare large files with the bdiff command
- Exercises: Identifying file differences
Session 4: SPLITTING FILES

- The split and csplit commands
- Exercises: Splitting files
Day 2

Session 5: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS

- od - octal dump
- Use cat to display non-printing characters
- The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
- The tr command for character translation
- Exercises: Translating characters with tr
Session 6: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW

- Standard regular expressions
- Extended regular expressions
Session 7: THE STREAM EDITOR sed

- sed command line syntax
- sed script files
- sed command processing
- sed addresses and simple instructions
- sed pattern space and hold space
- Grouping sed commands
- Hold and get functions
- Advanced flow control
- Exercises: Text processing with sed
Session 8: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK

- Basic AWK usage
- AWK program-files
- AWK scripts
- AWK variables
- Pattern matching with AWK
- AWK extended patterns
- AWK operators
- AWK arithmetic operations
- AWK output
- Formatting output with printf
- Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports
Day 3

Session 9: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

- The BEGIN and END functions
- The AWK if construct
- The AWK else if construct
- The AWK while construct
- Other program control statements
- The AWK break, continue and exit statements
- User defined functions
- Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures
Session 10: AWK FUNCTIONS

- AWK string functions
- AWK length, tolower, toupper, index, sub, gsub, match, substr, split, sprintf, system and getline functions
- Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions
Session 11: AWK ARRAYS

- AWK associative arrays
- Multi-dimensional arrays
- Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports
Session 12: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

- bc (calculator)
- fuser (testing for files in use)
- getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
- printf (formatting screen output)
- logger (script logging)
- xargs (generating arguments for a command)
- eval (re-evaluating variables)
- Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Available Delivery Options for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools

Live Instructor Led Classroom Online (Live Online)
Traditional Instructor Led Classroom training (TILT/ILT)
Delivery at your offices in United Kingdom
Private dedicated course for your staff

How many CPD hours does Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools provide?

The 3 day Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools course gives you up to 19.5 CPD hours/structured learning hours.

Who is the correct audience for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools?

Programmers, developers and system administrators who need to construct shell scripts and process text files using advanced text handling facilities.

Do you provide training for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools?

Yes, we provide corporate training, dedicated training and closed classes for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools. This can take place anywhere in United Kingdom including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh or live online.

What is the duration of Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools?

The Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools training takes place over 3 day(s), with each day lasting approximately 24.00 hours including breaks.

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Why are Nexus Human the best provider for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools?

Nexus Human are recognised as one of the best training companies. Our trainers have won awards including Small Firms Best Trainer, national training partner of the year for Ireland, and global top 30 instructor awards in 2012, 2019 and 2021.

Is there a discount code for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools?

Yes, the discount code PENPAL5 is currently available for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools training. Only one discount code can be used per booking.

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How many CPD hours does Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools provide?

Who is the correct audience for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools?

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Why are Nexus Human the best provider for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools?

Is there a discount code for Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools?

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