Unix/Linux Text Processing

Overview

Unix and Linux systems host a large number of tools for text processing, ranging from simple tools to search for patterns to complex utilities like the sed stream editor

Awk programs enable powerful text processing scripts to be written quickly and easily. This course provides an in-depth coverage of awk scripting with extensive workshops that cover real-world applications.

Objectives

On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Use simple text processing utilities
• Use the sed editor
• Run command-line awk scripts
• Run saved awk scripts
• Use the full features of the awk language
• Use awk for complex text processing applications

Audience

This course is for programmers, analysts and system and network administrators who wish to use awk and other Unix/Linux utilities for text processing, analysis and report generation.

Prerequisites

No previous knowledge is assumed.