Course : Linux, Mastering Tools

Practical course - 3d - 21h00 - Ref. LIU
Price : 2110 CHF E.T.

Linux, Mastering Tools






INTER
IN-HOUSE
CUSTOM

Practical course in person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. LIU
  3d - 21h00
2110 CHF E.T.







Course schedule

1
Using bash

  • Using a shell interpreter.
  • Using meta-characters (*, $, [, ], …).
  • Command line execution, redirecting and pipes (<, <<, >, >>, |).
  • Launching a command.
  • Common errors.

2
Automating tasks using shell scripts

  • Startup and install script.
  • Monitoring (connexion, file system, files).
  • Creating a script-shell (&, #!, source).
  • Variables. Passing arguments.
  • Profiling your scripts (2>, script, tee, debug, etc.).
  • Using at and crontab to execute delayed commands.
  • Shell programming : conditional structures (if, for, while), additions (functions, return value, etc.).

3
Grep, ed, sed and regular expressions

  • Regular expressions. Meta-characters.
  • Getting lines with grep using simple and complex patterns.
  • Grep extensions : egrep, fgrep.
  • Editing with sed. Syntax. Simple examples (display, remove, substitute).
  • Advanced sed.
Hands-on work
Grep and sed examples.

4
Awk language

  • Awk compared to sed and grep.
  • Using patterns in awk.
  • Variables, records and fields ($0,$1,$NR, etc.).
  • Simple and complex patterns.
  • Awk as a complete language.
  • Essential functions in awk.
  • Advanced features.

5
Publishing data

  • Converting data (ASCII, MIME). Accents.
  • Displaying file contents (od), transform (tr), converting (dos2unix), formatage (tex et latex), publishing (latex2pdf).
  • Presenting data : (more or less), concatenate data (fold, pr, col, etc.).

6
Managing files with tools and commands

  • File type : file. Read anc concatenate : cat.
  • File statistics : wc. Splitting a file : split, csplit
  • Comparing files : diff and cmp. Sorting files : sort.
  • Searching in files : find. Archiving : tar.
  • Compress files : compress, gzip, bzip2, zip, …
  • Other tools : patch, strings, uniq, comm, etc.


Publication date : 02/21/2024


Dates and locations

Last places available
Guaranteed date, in person or remotely
Guaranteed session
From 20 to 22 May 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 20 to 22 May 2026
EN
Remote class
Registration
From 7 to 9 September 2026
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 7 to 9 September 2026
EN
Remote class
Registration

REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 20 May, 20 May, 7 Sep., 7 Sep.