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

After completing this course, you should be able to: • Distinguish Korn and bash shell specific features • Use utilities such as sed and awk to manipulate data • Understand system shell scripts such as /etc/shutdown • Write useful shell scripts to aid system administration

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

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course. Go to the EViTA site to start this process: http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

Once you enroll in a GTP class, you will receive a confirmation letter that should show:

• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price is available to IBMers for GTP delivered courses only. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.