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Outline
Day 1 - Module 1: UNIX Shell Programming
*	Course Overview 
*	Agenda 
Module 2: Introduction to the Korn Shell
*	The Interactive Korn Shell vs. a Programming Environment 
*	Benefits of the Korn Shell 
*	Review of UNIX Basics 
Module 3: Korn Shell Basics 
*	User Account File Formats (passwd, shadow, and group) 
*	Setting up the Korn Shell Initialization Scripts (/etc/profile, .profile, .kshrc) 
*	Customizing the prompt 
*	Korn Shell Command-Line History Features 
*	Korn Shell Command-Line Aliases 
*	Standard Input, Output, and Error (stdin, stdout, stderr) 
*	File Redirection Metacharacters 
*	The grep Command 
*	Useful Korn Shell Programming Commands 
*	Pattern-Matching Metacharacters 
*	Korn Shell Variables - Local and Environment 
*	Displaying the Value of a Variable 
*	Setting Variable Attributes 
*	Quoting 
*	More Pattern-Matching Metacharacters 
*	How the Korn Shell Finds a Command 
*	Running Commands in the Background 
*	Terminal Settings 
*	Job Control Features 
*	Commands: grep, wc, sleep, time, print, echo, set, env, typeset,
	nohup, stty, wait, kill, fg, bg, jobs 
*	Metacharacters: >, >>, <. |, *, ?, [], ${}, ', ", `, \, $(), !(),
	*(), +(), ?(), @(), & 
Day 2  - Module 4: Korn Shell Programming
*	Testing Conditional Expressions 
*	The if-then Statement 
*	The case Statement 
*	Evaluating Arithmetic Expressions 
*	The while Loop 
*	Breaking out of Loops 
*	The until Loop 
*	The for Loop 
*	Default Values for Variables 
*	Built-in String Functions 
*	Accessing Command-Line Arguments 
*	Here Documents 
*	User-Defined Korn Shell Functions 
*	Function Libraries 
*	Prompting for Input 
*	The Select Loop 
*	Error Handling With Exit Status Codes 
*	Debugging 
*	Job Scheduling With cron 
*	Good Shell Programming Techniques 
*	Commands: test, if, case, let, while, break, continue, until, for,
	read, select, crontab 
*	Metacharacters: ${ :- }, ${ := }, $0, $1, $#, $*, << 
Day 3 - Module 5: The "awk" Utility
*	Printing Specific Fields 
*	Printing Specific Records 
*	Using Command Files 
*	awk Variables 
*	Arithmetic Operations 
*	Formatting Output With printf 
*	The BEGIN and END Patterns 
*	Changing the Default Field Separator 
Module 6: The "sed" Utility
*	Deleting Lines 
*	Performing Text Substitutions 
*	Using Absolute and Context Addresses 
*	Executing Multiple sed Commands 
*	Using Command Files 
*	Inserting Lines 
*	Reading In Files 
*	Writing Out Files 
*	Printing Affected Lines Only 
Module 7: A Networked Environment
*	Overview of Networking Terms and Definitions 
*	Overview of Host Names and IP Addresses 
*	High-Level Overview of Remote Logins 
*	High-Level Overview of File Transfers 
*	High-Level Overview of Sending Mail 
*	Commands: telnet, rlogin, ftp, rcp