Korn shell course
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2007-09-22 20:29:38 - Graham EllisIt's been quite a while since I presented a course that majored on the Korn Shell - I know the subject right enough (having written a complete 2 day course that got rave if niche reviews during a previous lifetime), and I jumped at a chance to brush up on my old skills to day, to recall the differences between ksh and bash, and to put some notes together. Actually - I got rather carried away with some 1000 lines of new text uploaded in longer articles:
Korn Shell Basics
More Korn Shell facilities
Shell Scripting with the Korn Shell
and with over a dozen sample scripts all of which I have placed in a Korn Shell Resource Index
The Korn Shell is a great shell - developed like bash as a "sh compatible" shell, it took all the interactive ideas of the C Shell and implements them within the bounds of the original sh framework; it's a very popular shell in a Sun / SunOS / Solaris environment. Used in conjunction with utilities such as grep, sed, sort and awk ... well - the scripting world is your oyster.
Presentation on Monday and after a day's revision I feel comfortable. "Water off a duck's back" I think is the term. I'll let you know how I get on, and no doubt post some more snippets here during and after the course.
Dear Reader,
Do you need to learn the Korn shell? If so - please let me know. Although I won't be running a regular public course, we do have the material and knowledge and I can train groups either here at our Melksham training centre or elsewhere. And where there's a will, theres a way for individuals too.
-- Graham