Who Should Attend:
Anyone working with a POSIX-compliant OS (such as Linux or *BSD) who wants to learn how to solve problems using the built-in tools.

Learn how to take advantage of a host of POSIX commands including sed, grep and awk along with shell programming to solve problems. Historically the shell and the old standby Unix commands were used to solve many problems. This approach is superior to Perl in some situations. We will explore solutions to common problems using what could be called "The POSIX Toolkit" approach.

Course Outline:

• Extracting data with grep
• Data modification with sed and tr
• Report generation with awk
• Other useful commands
• The shell as "glue"
• Debugging