Unix Shell Scripting Training

• According to a recent survey by top job portals, more than 40% of the Unix professionals were hired for Shell Scripting.
• Many among Fortune 500 companies, like IBM, AOL, Intel are using Unix Shell Scripting.
• The average payout of a Unix Shell Scripting professional is USD 105, 500 per annum - Payscale.com.

Unix Shell Scripting training suits best for the following job roles:

• Unix Developers
• Unix Administrators 
• Testing Professionals
• Mainframe Professionals
• Data Analysts
• Software Engineers

Having Basic knowledge of the Windows Operating System is recommended.

The trainees will gain knowledge on the following from this training:

• Overview of Unix Shell Scripting
• Bash and Korn-Shell Scripting Fundamentals
• Storing and Accessing Data
• Processing Data
• Modular Programming with Functions
• Creating "Production Quality" Scripts

LINUX OS background
LINUX (vs.) WINDOWS
Popular LINUX distributions/Vendors
Similarities between Unix & Linux
Differences between Unix & Linux
About POSIX standards.

Hardware, Kernel, Shell, Utilities and User programs
Layers in Unix OS
Unix Servers/Dumb terminals/nodes.

System Information commands (uname, date, etc)
Man command and User Related (w, who, etc)
Terminal Related (stty, etc)
Filter commands (more, less, etc)
Miscellaneous commands (cal, banner, clear, etc)
Viewing exit status of commands and Disk Related commands.

Input/Output Redirection And Piping
Introduction to Redirection/piping, Output Redirection Example
Input Redirection Example
Error Redirection Example.

Introduction to Unix processes
Program (vs.) Process
System processes & commands
User processes & commands
Finding processes information using ‘grep’
Background & foreground processing
Kill signal
Setting process priorities
Avoiding hang-ups using ‘nohup’

Introduction to job scheduling
Run jobs at regular intervals using crontab
Run jobs at specific intervals using ‘at’.

On-line communication using write, wall, talk, etc.
Offline communication using mail, news, etc.

Introduction to ‘echo’ command
System defined environment variables
User defined environment variables
Creating user defined environment variables.

Introduction to Visual Editor
Understanding 3 basic modes of operations
Cursor Movement commands
Scrolling commands
Editing text commands, Copying and pasting text
Shell commands, Text Buffers, Search commands.

Introduction to system files (/etc/passwd)
Creating user aliases ($HOME/.bashrc)
Sourcing environment ($HOME/.bash_profile)
Logout action file ($HOME/.bash_logout).

Introduction to Shell
Types of shells
Evolution/History of various Unix shells
Introduction to Shell scripting
Difference between programming and scripting
Steps in handling shell scripts
Writing first shell script – “Hello World…!”.

Adding comments
Displaying output to screen
Variables declaration
Arithmetic operations
Read Input from command line
Interactive Addition program
Positional Parameters
Command Line arguments
Arithmetic operations using command line arguments
Command line arguments using SHIFT operator
Scope of Variables.

Sequence control structure (vs.) decision-making structure
If-then-if statement
If-then-else-if statement
If-then-if-else-if statement TEST command
Case – esac statement
String operations, Examples.

For Loop, While loop, Until loop, Loop nesting, Break/continue commands
Examples on For/While/Until
For + ls example
While + case example
If + grep example
For + sed + awk example.

Introduction to Archiving
Introduction to Compression
Archive (vs.) compression
Creating archives
Compressing & uncompressing files
Compressed Archives.

Transferring files between Unix servers using FTP
Remote login to another Unix server
Starting and shutting down the servers
Writing C programs in Unix OS
Compiling and debugging C programs in Unix OS.

SED Introduction
Difference between “” and ‘’, s for substitution
SED Delimiters
Using & as the matched string
SED Multiple instructions
Multiple instructions through script, Printing, Deleting in SED, cut, tr commands
Lab Exercises.

AWK Introduction
AWK Basic syntax & Examples
AWK Inbuilt variables (FS, OFS, NR, RS, FILENAME), BEGIN, PRINT, END blocks in AWK
Inbuilt AWK functions (length, Index, sub, substr, tolower, toupper, split), IF Condition, Loops (While, DO … WHILE, FOR), Break - Continue - Exit, Arrays
Lab Exercises.

We offer two kinds of discounts. They are group discount and referral discount. Group discount is offered when you join as a group, and referral discount is offered when you are referred from someone who has already enrolled in our training.

Yes, we will discuss with our instructor and will schedule according to the time convenient to you.

The trainer will give Server Access to the course seekers, and we make sure you acquire practical hands-on training by providing you with every utility that is needed for your understanding of the course.

The trainer is a certified consultant and has significant amount of experience in working with the technology.

We will take care of providing you with all that is required to get placed in a reputed MNC and also forward your resume to the companies we tie-up with. Starting from providing the in-depth course material to explanation of the real-time scenarios and preparing your resumes, we will make you gain expertise so that you can get a job.

We assist you completely in acquiring certification. We ensure you will get certified easily after our training.

Yes, we accept payments in two installments.

If you are enrolled in classes and/or have paid fees, but want to cancel the registration for certain reason, it can be attained within first 2 sessions of the training. Please make a note that refunds will be processed within 30 days of prior request.

Our trainer explains every topic along with real-time scenarios. In the last one or two sessions, the trainer will explain one end-to-end project to showcase the real time working environment.

• Unix Shell scripting is constantly required in various fields like development, testing, application support, etc. Therefore, this is an evergreen and on-demand skill.
• Top MNCs are hiring certified shell scripting professionals on various domains like Hadoop, SQL, ETL, and testing around the world.
• According to Indeed.com, the average salary of a Unix Shell Scripting professional is around $104,500 per annum.

• Unix Developer 
• Unix Application Support Engineer
• Unix administrator
• Unix Tester

The following is the list of companies hiring Unix Shell Scripting professionals:

• Google
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Amazon
• IBM
• McDonald's
• NASA
• Union Bank