The course teaches students to use the sort, grep, sed, & awk utilities within Solaris™. Systems administrators, Solaris users, & programmers benefit form the course showing them how to use the command line applications of sort, grep, sed, & awk commands as well as using sed & awk scripts that develop the users skills with the full power of these utilities.

Duration: 3 Days

Sorting files by line or field
Regular Expressions (meta character) with grep commands to locate specific lines in files
Performing non-interactive editing tasks with the sed command
Writing simple sed scripts to perform complex editing tasks
Using awk variables & arrays to sort data
Employing awk programs to manipulate numeric & textual data
Performing formatted printing in awk
Writing simple awk programs to write reports from data files
Using built-in awk functions & defining new functions
Write awk programs that make decisions based on numeric or string comparisons ( branches & loops)
Grep, egrep extended metacharacters, combinations-lab advanced combinations- lab Sed
Basic commands- Lab, Advanced commands- Lab, Advanced scripting -Lab
Miscellaneous commands Tr, sort, cut, past, pr -Lab

TN-125: Introduction to UNIX & Linux & TN-215: Shell Programming.  Students should have a basic knowledge of UNIX commands including rm, cp, man, cat, & mkdir. Navigating directory structure using commands such as ls, cp, & pwd. Creating and editing files with the vi editor or text editor. Use of basic programming constructs, & commands such as variables & loops & how to write a simple program in a programming language.

This course is designed for systems administrators,  UNIX users, & programmers who are looking for an in-depth understanding of sed & awk utilities relating to functionality and scripting within sed & awk.