The course provides students with end-to-end shell scripts that can be used to automate repetitive tasks and solve real-world system administration problems.

·         Scripting Quick Start and Review

·         Process a File Line by Line

·         Automated Event Notification

·         Progress Indicator Using a Series of Dots, a Rotating Line, or a Countdown to Zero

·         File System Monitoring

·         Monitoring Paging and Swap Space

·         Monitoring System Load

·         Process Monitoring and Enabling Preprocess, Startup, and Postprocess Events

·         Monitoring Processes and Application

·         Creating Pseudo-Ramdom Password

·         Automated Hosts Pinging with Notification

·         Compiling, Installing, Configuring and Using sudo command

·         Highlighted grep Script

·         Keeping the Printers Printing

·         Automated FTP stuff

·         Finding Larges Files

·         Monitoring and Auditing User Key Strokes

·         Pseudo-Random Number Generation

·         Floating-Point Math and the bc Utility

·         Scripts for Number Base Conversions

·         Menu Program Suitable for Operations Staff

·         Sending Pop-up Messages from Unix to Windows