Hesburgh Libraries

Session 2 Workshop Overview

This workshop further introduces participants to the Unix shell.

Objectives

1. Understand why and how to use the command line
2. Use shell commands to work with directories and files
3. Use shell commands to find and manipulate data
4. Look at all or part of a file using the command line
5. Moving and copying files

If you did not take Intro to Unix Shell Session 1, please review Introduction to the Unix Shell episodes 1-2. If you’re already comfortable manipulating files and directories at the command line you may want to take Unix Shell Session 3 or Session 4.

Please bring your laptop. To complete this lesson, you will need a UNIX-like shell environment (see Setup). You will also need to download and extract the file "shell-lesson.zip" from GitHub. Once you have unzipped and extracted the file, you should end up with a folder called “shell-lesson”.

If you need help setting up your shell environment or downloading the lesson files, please contact the CDS at cds@nd.edu.

This workshop is part of a series.

You can take this workshop to build toward the completion of either the Software or Library Carpentries lesson series. This workshop is taught by a Carpentries-certified instructor.