Shell Programming Course Overview

Shell Programming Course Overview

New Version Available UNIX Shell Programming

The Shell Programming Course is designed to equip learners with the skills necessary to navigate and script within UNIX environments. It starts with an introduction to UNIX shells, detailing their significance and the variety of shells available. As the course progresses, participants will delve into the structure and creation of shell scripts, including debugging techniques, to enhance their scripting expertise.

The course also covers shell environment initialization, variable types, command line parsing, pattern matching with grep and regular expressions, and using editors like sed for non-interactive tasks. Furthermore, the course introduces the nawk programming language for advanced text processing, interactive scripting techniques, and handling user input effectively.

Learners will gain proficiency in managing variables, positional parameters, conditionals, loops, and functions to create robust and efficient scripts. The course also teaches how to handle interprocess communication with shell signals and trap statements. Upon completion, participants in this Shell Programming Course will be well-equipped with the practical knowledge to automate tasks and streamline processes in UNIX systems.

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Sunny Sirohi

6+ Years Experience

Highly motivated corporate trainer with 5+ years of experience in delivering training in Linux for Red Hat and other vendors like SUSE, LPI, and LF across diverse industries. Proven success in leveraging educational theories and methodologies to design, develop, and deliver successful training and integrate instructional technologies. Adapt at organizing and facilitating management in Team Building, Imparting Technical Training, Consulting, and Management.

Target Audience for Shell Programming

The Shell Programming course is designed to equip participants with essential UNIX shell scripting skills for automation and problem-solving.


  • System Administrators
  • Database Administrators
  • Developers working on UNIX/Linux platforms
  • Software Engineers requiring shell scripting knowledge
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Technical Support Specialists
  • IT Professionals interested in automating tasks in UNIX/Linux
  • Data Scientists and Analysts working in UNIX/Linux environments
  • Students pursuing degrees in Computer Science or Information Technology
  • Professionals seeking to improve their command-line proficiency
  • Network Engineers managing UNIX/Linux servers


Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this Shell Programming?

Introduction to Learning Outcomes:

Gain proficiency in UNIX shell environments and scripting through comprehensive modules that cover everything from basic shell operations to advanced pattern matching and scripting techniques.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

  • Understand the functions and types of UNIX/Oracle Solaris shells and their role in the UNIX environment.
  • Develop shell scripts with proper structure, including initialization, processing, and termination phases.
  • Apply debugging techniques to identify and correct issues in shell scripts.
  • Initialize the shell environment using startup scripts and manipulate various shell variables and command line parsing.
  • Utilize the grep command and regular expressions for effective pattern matching.
  • Perform non-interactive editing tasks using the sed editor.
  • Employ nawk as a programming language for data manipulation and pattern matching.
  • Create interactive scripts that handle user input, output, and file descriptors efficiently.
  • Implement conditional statements (if/then/else, case) and Boolean operators for flow control in scripts.
  • Use loops (for, while, until, select) and control script flow with shift and getopts statements.
  • Define and manage user-defined functions, and incorporate external function files into scripts.
  • Manage shell signals and errors using the trap statement for robust script execution.

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