UNIX Bourne Shell Programming

                    Developed by:

                         User Liaison Section, D-7131
                         Denver Office
 
                    Revision Date:  February 7, 1991

• 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.
    • 2.2.1 HOME
    • 2.2.2 IFS
    • 2.2.3 MAIL
    • 2.2.4 MAILPATH
    • 2.2.5 MAILCHECK
    • 2.2.6 PATH
    • 2.2.7 PS1
    • 2.2.8 PS2
  • 2.3 Read-Only User Variables.
  • 2.4 Read-Only Shell Variables.
    • 2.4.1 Name of the Calling Program
    • 2.4.2 Arguments
    • 2.4.3 Shift
    • 2.4.4 Set
    • 2.4.5 expr
  • 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.
    • 6.4.1 More on Regular Expressions
    • 6.4.2 Closure
    • 6.4.3 Some Nice grep Options
    • 6.4.4 Summary of Regular Expression Characters
  • 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.
    • 6.9.1 ar: Creating an Archive File with Object Modules
    • 6.9.2 ar: Verifying the Contents of the Archive File
    • 6.9.3 ar: Removing Duplicate Object Files
    • 6.9.4 ar: Compiling Main and Archive Files
  • 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

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• 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
• INDEX