The Researchers' Toolkit Series: Introduction to Command Line/Bash

The Researchers' Toolkit Series: Introduction to Command Line/Bash

Instructor: Pascal Paschos, Senior Computational Specialist, Northwestern IT Research Computing Services

In this introduction of Bash shell we will present the command line interface to navigate a unix environment. Topics include the use of Bash to create, move and copy directories and files and query their contents. We will also introduce the concept of variables which can be used to create loops and conditional operations in order to automate shell operations using scripts.