Advanced Bash Scripting

This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on experience in a shared computing environment. The course will cover advanced topics in writing Bash shell scripts, providing tips, examples and best practices for creating robust “pipeline scripts” that execute multiple processing steps. Topics include defining functions, argument processing and defaulting, error checking, effective use of utilities such as awk and grep, as well as subtleties of UNIX streams and text manipulation.

Prerequisites:
Intermediate Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.