U515 Shell Script Programming in z/OS UNIX

Shell Script Programming in z/OS UNIX - Topical Outline

Day One

Introduction to the class

The uses for shell scripts

Scripting languages available

And now for something completely different

Computer Exercise: Class set up

UNIX Applications

Running the UNIX shells

Shells and processes and such

Pseudo-terminals

Sessions

UNIX Jobs

Commands and processes

Shell commands: tty, sleep, ps, uname

Computer Exercise: Shells, sessions, and processes

Regular expressions

Shell commands: grep, egrep, fgrep

Computer Exercise: Regular expressions

The shell line editor: ed

Shell editors

Shell commands: ed

Computer Exercise: The ed editor

Where did I put that file?

Shell commands: find

Shell commands: find and grep together

Computer Exercise: The find command

Introduction to shell scripts

Shell scripts

Shell commands: read, clear

Scripts and comments

Shell commands: getconf

Computer Exercise: Basic scripts

Day Two

The if and test commands

Exit values

Reserved word commands: if, test

Shell commands: pathchk

Computer Exercise: Conditional processing

Looping in shell scripts

Reserved word commands: [[ ]], until, while

Reserved word commands, looping - nested loops

Reserved word commands: break, continue

Computer Exercise: Looping

Variable manipulation

Shell variables

Shell commands: let

Variable attributes

Shell command: typeset, integer, expr

Computer Exercise: The Scores script

Parameters in shell scripts

Parameters

Accessing parameters

Reserved word commands, looping - for

Writing shell scripts - an exploration

More special parameters

Array variables

Computer Exercise: The Peek script

Managing choices: select and case

Menu like structures

Reserved word commands: select, case

Shell commands: getopts

Scripts: basic error handling

Shell commands: print

Computer Exercise: More complex scripts

Functions

Functions in Scripts

Shell commands: autoload, command

Computer Exercise: A function in a script

Shell Flags and Options

The Shell Environment

Shell commands: set, unset

Shell commands: sysvar and z/OS system symbols

Computer Exercise: The set command

Day Three

z/OS Shell Processing

Tying it all together

Command execution

Shell commands: sh, exec, whence, type, eval, xargs

The magic number

Shell commands: file

Computer Exercise: More shell commands

sed: The Stream Editor

Significance of "Stream Editor"

Shell commands: sed

Computer Exercise: Displaying a file with HTML using sed

Sorts

Shell commands: tsort, sort

Computer Exercise: Sorts

File Compares and Other Information

Shell commands: compares

Shell commands: diff, patch, dircmp, cmp, cksum, comm, uniq, wc, od

Computer Exercise: File compares and such

More Work with Text Files

Shell commands: split, csplit

Computer Exercise: Splitting files

Running Shell Executables in Batch: BPXBATCH

Executables

The BPXBATCH program

The OSHELL TSO/E command

Computer Exercise: Batch work

Appendices

The bc command

The vi editor - Part 1 (vi)

The vi editor - Part 2 (ex)

Content summary

Index

U515 / 3 Days

Materials version: V3.x

Course description
Course Objectives
z/OS UNIX curriculum
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