This course will teach you how to use shell scripts and utilities for practical system administration of AIX (or other UNIX) operating systems.

You will have a firm grounding in the Perl language and be able to:

• Write Perl scripts for data-processing, system administration, and other applications
• Use modules from the Perl Module Library to improve your efficiency

This course is for support staff for AIX on POWER systems

You should have:

• An understanding of programming fundamentals: variables, flow control concepts such as repetition and decision.
• A working knowledge of AIX including the use of the vi editor, find and grep commands.

Students without this experience should attend AIX Basics (AN10G).

• Basic shell concepts
• Flow control in a shell Script
• Functions and typeset
• Shell features such as arithmetic and string handling
• Using regular expressions
• Using sed, awk and other AIX utilities