Advanced Shell Programming

Half Day Afternoon
(1:30 pm-5:00 pm)

Thurgood Marshall North Ballroom

Linux
M7
Mike Ciavarella, Coffee Bean Software Pty Ltd
Description: 

The humble shell script is still a mainstay of UNIX/Linux system administration scripting languages, despite the wide availability of alternatives such as Perl, Python, TCL, and other similar languages. This class details techniques that move beyond the quick-and-dirty shell script.

Who should attend: 

Intermediate system administrators or anyone with a solid knowledge of programming and with some experience in Bourne/Korn shells or their derivatives.

Take back to work: 

An understanding of how to use the "lowly" shell to achieve lofty goals.

Topics include: 
  • Common mistakes and unsafe practices
  • Modular shell script programming
  • Building blocks: awk, sed, etc.
  • Writing secure shell scripts
  • Performance tuning
  • Choosing the right utilities for the job
  • Addressing portability at the design stage
  • When not to use shell scripts