Unix: Shell Scripting Workshop

Prerequisites

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

Please note that this course is NOT suitable for beginner or novice shell scripters. It is also NOT suitable for those who do not have significant practical experience of writing (or trying to write) their own shell scripts.

The purpose of this workshop is to give attendees the opportunity to ask questions about any problems they have encountered in trying to write their own shell scripts in bash, and to obtain advice on how to tackle more complex shell scripting tasks. It is unlikely to be of use to attendees who do not have some experience of writing shell scripts for their own purposes.

It is essential that those attending the workshop have thought of some questions to ask the presenters, or of some scenarios/problems they wish to explore with the presenters, prior to attending.

The intended audience of this workshop is those who have previously attended the Unix Shell Scripting course.

• Prior attendance of the "Unix: Simple Shell Scripting for Scientists" course or equivalent experience
• Experience of writing shell scripts for one's own purposes - this is COMPULSORY; those who do not have some experience of writing their own shell scripts should NOT attend
• Questions on shell scripting for the presenters and/or shell scripting scenarios/problems to explore with the presenters

Number of sessions: 1

• As suggested by attendees

Discussions and demonstrations.

SUSE v. 11.1 on PWF Linux

• People requiring very advanced shell programming skills are recommended to learn Python instead, where appropriate. The "Programming: Python for Absolute Beginners" course may be of interest in this regard.
• Those attending this course may find it useful to study the "Unix Systems: Further Commands" course notes as this will enable them to use more sophisticated Unix commands in their shell scripts.

One half day session

• Programming and Scripting
• Scientific Computing
• Unix (including Linux) Systems & Use