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C Shell Programming

Duration: 2 days

Audience

Individuals requiring a mastery of the C Shell interface to the UNIX operating system. This includes system administrators, programmers, and power users.

Course Contents

  1. Review of Useful Shell Commands

  2. Using Redirection, Pipes, Command and Variable Substitution

  3. Command Line Parsing

  4. Command Line Editing

  5. Using the History and Alias Facilities

  6. C Shell Job Control

  7. The Shell Environment

  8. Creating and Using Shell Scripts

  9. Program Flow Control (conditional statements)

  10. Program Flow Control (loop and branch statements)

  11. Options to the C Shell

  12. Debugging Programs

  13. Using the onintr Command

  14. Using Temporary Files Effectively

  15. Advanced Programming Techniques

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to write C Shell scripts using the following features and more:

Instructional Technique

Students are invited to bring their current ideas and questions to the classroom for discussion. Case studies, lecture, group problem solving, and online laboratories will be used. Students will be encouraged to enhance their skills utilizing the techniques presented through classroom problem solving and controlled online workshops.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with UNIX commands, directory structure, and the text editor. See the catalog Appendix for courses which satisfy this requirement.

Programming skills are not required, but are helpful.