sh - Posix Shell - 5 Day Session - July 6, 2020 to July 10, 2020 (Through https://meet.ilugc.in)

July 04, 2020

Date(s): From July 06, 2020 to July 10, 2020
Time: Evening 5.00 PM
Duration: 1 Hour
Place: https://meet.ilugc.in

Let’s get into the basics of Posix ‘sh’ Shell. Here are the Topics we will be covering

Day 1: (July 06, 2020)

Basic commands (like ls, cd, find, rm, cat etc.,)
How shell works when we execute a command
Where commands are stored
Importance of PATH variable
Difference between regular commands, built-in commands, aliases

Day 2: (July 07, 2020)

How to read manual page
Compound commands, redirection, pipes and background execution
Subshell execution

Day 3: (July 08, 2020)

Variables, Environment Variables, control structures and loops
Functions
Variable Expansion, Parameter Expansion, Arithmetic Expansion and Command Substitution
Positional Parameters, Special Parameters and Special Variables

Day 4: (July 09, 2020)

Shell Patterns and find command
Basic Regular Expression, grep, sed and awk commands
Shell Built-in Commands.
Structure of a Shell Script and ‘getopt’ command

Day 5: (July 10, 2020)

Writing one shell script to show real time metrics of the current system (cpu/memory/network)
Conclusion

All are welcome to participate in this session to understand how terminals work in a Unix based system.