Linux/Unix 4: Scripting for Administrators Sed, Awk, and Perl

Course Details and Syllabus


Course:	Linux/Unix 4: Scripting for Administrators Sed, Awk, and Perl
Tuition:	$398
Time Frame:	With our monthly lab fee system, this course is completely self-paced. You can expect to work approximately 40 hours on this course.
Technical Requirements:	As long as you have a web browser and internet connection, you can take this course from anywhere in the world.
CEUs:	4 Continuing Education Units with official letter from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education.
Software:	The web-based Learning Sandbox^® provided for you will contain all your lessons, projects, quizzes, account files, editors, and tools necessary to build your skills from beginning to end, even beyond coursework. In addition, you will be provided with a virtual Linux root server which can be accessed through the Sandbox or, if you prefer, any normal SSH program. No other software is needed.
Instructor:	You will have one instructor throughout the course who will evaluate your projects and quizzes, hand them back for improvement when necessary, and coach you throughout your skills advancement.
Book:	All required course materials and software are included online within the Learning Sandbox^®. However, within a few weeks of enrolling, you'll receive the free book Learning Perl, Fifth Edition as a thank-you from O'Reilly.
Certificates:	Completion of this course counts toward the Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate Series.
Prerequisites:	Linux/Unix 1: The Unix file system, Linux/Unix 2: Networking and DNS, and Linux/Unix 3: Unix Services, or equivalent intermediate to advanced system administration skills. This course is meant for the intermediate or advanced system administrator.
Topics:	Sed, Awk, shell scripting, Perl, loops, arrays and hashes, data manipulation, regular expressions, functions, directories and files, recursive searches, etc.
Syllabus:	Introduction to Scripting Line editing Patterns as addresses Search and replace Sed Sed Multiple commands Output redirection Sed script files Awk Awk Sorting Shell Scripting Variables Statements Perl Variables Operators If Statements Conditions Embedded if statements Multiple conditions String conditions Loops While loops For loops Last Next Arrays and Hashes Arrays Hashes Foreach Input Getting input Reading from a file Data Manipulation Split Push Reverse Join Chomp Fun with Regular Expressions Review Multipliers Special characters More Fun with Regular Expressions Commands Search and replace Translate Evaluation of the replacement string Functions Writing functions Libraries Directories and Files Reading directories File tests File manipulation Running system commands Recursive Directory Search Recursion Removing . and .. Searching recursively Making the output better

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