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UNIX Bourne Shell Programming

I. INTRODUCTION
- A. Audience
- B. Course Objectives
- C. Course Handout Conventions
1. BOURNESHELL OVERVIEW
- 1.1 What is the BourneShell?
- 1.2 Making a Bourne Shell Script Executable
- 1.3 Tracing Mechanisms
- Workshop 1
2. USER, SHELL, AND READ-ONLY SHELL VARIABLES
- 2.1 User Variables.
- 2.2 Shell Variables.
- 2.3 Read-Only User Variables.
- 2.4 Read-Only Shell Variables.
- Workshop 2.
3. POSITIONAL PARAMETERS
- 3.1 Reading Input Into a Shell Variable.
- 3.2 Command Substitution.
- 3.3 Comments in BourneShell Scripts.
- 3.4 BourneShell Environment - Exporting Variables.
- Workshop 3.
4. CONTROL CONSTRUCTS:
- 4.1 Types of Tests Used with Control Constructs:.
- 4.2 Test on Numeric Values.
- 4.3 Test on Character Strings.
- 4.4 Test on File Types.
- 4.5 if then.
- 4.6 if then else.
- 4.7 if then elif.
- 4.8 for.
- 4.9 while.
- 4.10 until.
- 4.11 case.
- Workshop 4..
5. COMPILING PROGRAMS IN UNIX.
- 5.1 "C": Sample Program with a Main and Two Functions in One
- 5.2 "C": Compiling a Program.
- 5.3 "C": Renaming the Executable Module.
- 5.4 "C": Giving a Name to the Output File.
- 5.5 "C": Producing an Assembly Listing.
- 5.6 "C": Main and Two Functions in Three Separate Source Files
- 5.7 "C": Compiling but Not Producing an Executable Module
- 5.8 FORTRAN: Sample Program a Main and Two Subroutine.
- 5.9 FORTRAN: Compiling a Program.
- 5.10 FORTRAN: Renaming the Executable Module.
- 5.11 FORTRAN: Giving a Name to the Output File.
- 5.12 FORTRAN: Producing an Assembly Listing.
- 5.13 FORTRAN: Main and Two Subroutines in Three Separate Source Files
- 5.14 FORTRAN: Compiling But Not Producing an Executable Module
- 5.15 FORTRAN: Compiling Object Files to Produce an Executable Module
- 5.16 COBOL: Sample Program with a Main and Two Subroutines
- 5.17 COBOL: Compiling a Program.
- 5.18 COBOL: Running a Program.
- Workshop 5.
6. UNIX TOOLS.
- 6.1 Processes.
- 6.2 Executing a Command.
- 6.3 Process Identification.
- 6.4 grep: A Pattern Matching Filter.
- 6.5 sed: Edit a File to Standard Output.
- 6.6 awk: A Pattern Matching Programming Language.
- 6.7 sort: Sort a File.
- 6.8 What Other Useful UNIX Tools are Available.
- 6.9 Archiver and Library Maintainer.
- Workshop 6
7. VAX DCL TO UNIX SHELL SCRIPT CONVERSION.
- 7.1 Processes.
- 7.2 Pipes.
- 7.3 Input, Output, and Error Redirection.
- 7.4 Command Structure and File Naming Conventions.
- 7.5 File Management Commands.
- 7.6 Metacharacters.
- 7.7 Wildcards: Are They Really Wild?.
- 7.8 Summary.
- Workshop 7.
8. ADVANCED FEATURES OF FTP.
- 8.1 Initializing FTP on UMAX.
- 8.2 Multiple File Transfers.
- 8.3 Auto Login Feature.
- 8.4 Macros.
- 8.5 Filename Translation.
- 8.6 Aborting Transfers.
- 8.7 More Remote Computer Commands.
- Workshop 8.
9. OPTIONAL CHAPTER - KORNSHELL PROGRAMMING.
- 9.1 KornShell Variables.
- 9.2 User Defined Variables.
- 9.3 Values of Variables Between Child and Parent Processes
- 9.4 ksh: Aliases.
- 9.5 ksh: Command Line Editing.
- 9.6 ksh: Interactive Command Line Editing.
- 9.7 ksh: Functions.
- 9.8 ksh: The Select Construct.
- 9.9 ksh: Tracing and Conditional Execution.
- Workshop 9
APPENDIX A - sh
APPENDIX B - test
APPENDIX C - expr
APPENDIX D - ftp
APPENDIX E - cc
APPENDIX F - f77
APPENDIX G - lint
APPENDIX H - cb
APPENDIX I - ar
APPENDIX J - time
APPENDIX K - ksh
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UNIX Bourne Shell Programming