About the course The course is intended for those who need to find out how to enrich their UNIX environments with shell programming. It is of great benefit to administrators who need to automate system inspection and consequent action. Implementers and developers need to know how to bed their applications and databases into the operating system environment and will find it very useful to be able to write self-logging job packs. A real-world view of the training is adopted, to take the delegate past the training lab and into the world of business computing. Our workshops often use security contexts as this gives a valuable insight into intrusions that you may be a victim of and is a great way to learn the system. We assume all our clients will find the knowledge a tremendous value-added to the basic training and will treat it responsibly. Prerequisites Delegates must have attended our introduction to Unix course, or be at a similar level of skill. You should be comfortable logging into Unix and running Unix commands from the terminal prompt, supplying options and arguments as required, redirecting output and so forth. You should also have a fair aptitude for computer programming generally. The system editor used on the course is vi. Delegates are expected to be able to create and amend text in vi. Who should attend Unix system administrators Staff supporting applications on Unix platforms Programmers who need to learn the shell to support the running of their applications Database administrators advancing their Unix skills Anyone wishing to interrogate files on a Unix machine with a high degree of automation Specialists supporting 3rd party Unix scripts Duration: 3 days