This repository contains the materials for D-Lab Command Line Fundamentals workshop.
No prior experience in either command line or bash is necessary.
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In this workshop, we provide a basic introduction to how to interact with your computer via terminal. We are going to focus on Bash(Bourne-Again SHell) or Zsh(Z shell), which are one of the most commonly used Unix/Linux shells. This workshop is designed to be 1-hour long.
After this workshop, you will be able to:
- Understand the role of the command shell in operating system interactions.
- Understand and navigate through directories and paths.
- Practice creating, moving, and deleting files and directories.
- Use pipes and redirection to combine commands.
Before attending the workshop, please ensure you have gone through these instructions.
You'll need to make sure we can use bash on your computer.
- Windows: You can install BASH emulator,
Git BASHvia git for Windows. When you are installing Git, choose "Use the Nano editor by default". If you already have another BASH emulator installed (e.g. WSL), we can use your installed program instead. - Mac: We can use Terminal on Mac. Applications > Terminal
- Linux: We can use Terminal on most Linux machines. Applications > Terminal
Check out the following resources to learn more about Command Line/Bash:
Software Carpentry
The Unix Shell
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