Targeted Audience: Developers, Production Support Analysts, Testers, Students/professionals who wish to learn important technologies for career.
What you will learn: Practical implementation of Shell Scripting in Real time and Design scripts yourself easily.
System Requirement: Mac or Linux or Windows Machine. In case of Windows, 8 GB RAM is preferred.

Syllabus:

Practical Tips and Techniques for Shell Scripting

• 20 Practical techniques to write end to end real time shell scripts by yourself
• 4 Real time Projects and making end to end scripts along with implementing/analysing functionality.

Basics of Shell Commands

• Different Useful day-to-day commands.

The vi Editor

• Detailed approach to familiarize with vi

Access Control through file attributes

• Changing file/directory attributes
• Changing users and groups
• Special permissions, sticky bit etc.

The Processes and job control

• Process and program and files
• Listing and monitoring processes
• Process control, send to background
• Changing process priority level, cron, at and batch for scheduled execution, sleep

The Environment

• What is environment variable etc.
• Understanding and customizing shell startup scripts,

Basic useful utilities

• Who,date,calculator,calendar etc
• Zip,unzip, gzip, gunzip
• Mailing
• locating files with locate and find.

General and advanced filters

• Word count
• Searching patterns using grep.
• Sorting files with multiple keys,
• Advanced stream editors.

Scripts

• Introduction to shell scripts, what, why, where, how
• Variables, Read and echo, shell variables, Special characters and comment.
• Running a Script on the Command-line, different ways to run a script.
• Running a Script from within vi, PATH and bin, Script Interpreters
• Exercise and project

 Decision Making and flow control

• Displaying and using variables, command substitution, The Trouble with Quotes, line Control
• Printing and formatting the output
• Conditional command execution, Positional parameters
• Creating positional parameters
• Conditional substitution, True and False
• if , else & elif Statements, case statements
• Exercise and project

Looping and breaking

• The while and until loop
• The ‘for’ loop
• Breaking out of a loop and continuing
• Associative arrays,
• Exercise and project

Functions

• Program Structure
• Defining and Calling a Function
• Function Parameters
• Function Return Values
• Exercise and project

Advanced Scripting

• Debugging
• Default Values for Variables, arithmetic evaluation using expr and let
• Temporary Files
• Preventing Abnormal Termination, signals and immortal scripts
• File redirection revisited, merging streams, creating file handles.
• Exercise and project.

Networking and Database in Scripts

• Creating Database in Scripts, connecting to database
• Sending commands to Server with Scripts, Formatting the received Output
• Networking Tools, ftp, scp etc
• Project and further readings

Creating Utilities and essential system administration

• Sending Mails from scripts
• Performing Backups
• Managing User Accounts
• Scheduling CRON jobs and sharing practical experience
• Startup and shutdown
• Managing disk space
• Run levels

and more…