U515 Shell Script Programming in z/OS UNIX

Shell Script Programming in z/OS UNIX - Course Objectives

On successful completion of this course, the student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:

Use regular expressions in UNIX shell commands, where supported
Use the 'ed' line editor as well as the oedit editor to create and maintain shell scripts
Work with directories, files, and variables using commands such as grep, find, and typeset
Work with shell variables using let and expr commands
Create and run shell scripts, including the use of these commands and features:
- Prompting the script user for input using echo and read
- Conditional logic and looping using if, test, until, while, break, continue
- Supporting options and parameters using for, select, case, and getopts
Create and use user-defined shell functions, both inside and outside of scripts
Use the powerful facilities of sed, the stream editor, including using sed scripts as a tool to convert text files and flat files into HTML files for viewing on the Internet or corporate intranet
Use classic and topological sorts of files, and various tools to compare files and directories
Run shell scripts and programs in batch using the BPXBATCH facility.

Note: Although not part of the formal lecture materials, the appendices include comprehensive coverage of the vi / ex editor as well as the shell command line editor and its vi, emacs, and gmacs modes, and the bc programming language.

U515 / 3 Days

Materials version: V3.x

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