Digital Learning Educational Innovation Across Northwestern

The shell is a useful operating system to most researchers who are doing any type of programming. The Unix shell is powerful and often the fastest and most direct way to work with files, folders, executing programs, etc. Also, most programmers operate in this OS, due to the simplicity and control over the system. In this tutorial, you will be introduced to the command line and learn basic commands.

This is a hands-on session.

There are some public computers available in the LRC for users, but users are encouraged to bring their own laptops for this session.

If you are a Windows user and do not have a command line editor, you need to install X-Win32.