The name says it all... An HBS Lunch-and-Learn Series seminar
Find Unix tough to learn or confusing? Looking to learn enough to get your work done while making life less painful? Or do you secretly want to boast to your friends? This concise class will go through the basics of working with files & navigating directories, handling large numbers of files, customizing your environment to work more efficiently, and interacting with the HBS compute grid resources.
This class will enable you to do complex things with just a few keystrokes, help you combine existing programs in new ways, and automate repetitive tasks so they aren’t typing the same things over and over again!
At the conclusion of this seminar, we hope that you will be familiar and more confident with the following Unix concepts and methods
- Format of a Unix command, types of output, and how to get help
- Understand the structure of and how to traverse the filesystem
- Know how to create & remove files & directories
- Know how to copy/move files & directories
- How to view the contents of files, how to find content inside files, and files themselves
- Commands for transferring files and handling large numbers of files
- One way to customize your work environment
- Common Unix commands for the LSF scheduler on the HBS Comput Grid
Not painful for Mac and Linux users. A bit more involved for PC users. Please see our Installation Instructions document.
For Intermediate Users
Please see my FASRC Tips & Tricks document. For (current) HBS users, you can also look at our Unix Commands and General Unix Info document.
Most of this material is a mashup of my previous work done at FASRC Tips & Tricks, and work from Harvard Informatics Basic Unix and Tips & Tricks, Software Carpentry, and Programming Historian.