Introduction to the Command Line

We all use the Linux command line shell in a variety of ways in our daily research and system administration tasks. In this tutorial, we review the basics of working with the shell on a Linux system, and explore a range of tools and techniques for using the shell more productively in our day-to-day work.

The tutorial comprises three sessions. Topics covered include:

• File system hierarchy standard
• File permissions
• Text editors
• Shell history
• Environment variables
• Bash scripting
• Streams, redirection and pipes
• Job control
• Text processing, filtering and transformation
• Networking utilities

• [October 30th, 2015]
  Session 1: Shell and Linux basics; editing text. [slides]
  
  
• [November 6th, 2015]
  Session 2: Advanced shell features; scripting. [slides]
  
  
• [November 20th, 2015]
  Session 3