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Foundation - Z Shell Programming |
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| | Course DC942 - 3 Days | | Overview |
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| | | Course Description In this three-day hands-on course students learn how to read, write, and debug complex Z shell scripts. | | | | | | | | You Will Learn How To Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: - Read and understand Z shell scripts
- Debug Z shell scripts
- Customize and extend their user environment with Z shell scripts
- Create interactive menus with Z shell scripts
- Use all key language features of the Z shell: variables, arrays, branches, loops and functions
- Write Z shell scripts that perform complex file handling, string manipulations and mathematics
| | | | | | | | Course Benefits Although it is a powerful scripting language, Z shell is a shell designed for interactive use. Students will increase their productivity by taking full advantage of the Z shell. | | | | | | | | Course Prerequisites To ensure your success, we recommend you first take either our Introduction To UNIX course or our Introduction To Linux course, or have the equivalent knowledge. Familiarity with Web browsers, the vi editor, and UNIX command line interface is assumed. | | | | | | | | Who Should Attend? This course is valuable for system administrators, developers and other computer professionals involved with UNIX. | | | | | | | | Hands-On Exercises: Throughout this course, students perform a series of extensive hands-on exercises, including: - Creating loops and making decisions using while and for loops
- Writing scripts to perform matematical calculations
- Using eval for dynamic commands
- Handling errors with default values
- Breaking a large program into reusable modules using functions
- Manipulating multiple files
- Handling unexpected events with trap
- Processing command line options
- Building an interactive menu interface using case constructs and read
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