01 Introducting the Shell

Introducting the Shell

A quick introduction to the workshop along with many things Linux / Shell / Computational

Feel free to follow along with the lecture slides at this link.

Link to pdf of the presentation

Logging in to Sphinx:

If you haven't already, please be sure to follow the instructions on Getting started with UTIA Computing Resources.

From your terminal, use the command ssh to connect to the Sphinx server:

ssh <your_netid>@sphinx.ag.utk.edu

note: whenever you see the "" syntax, it's implied that you'll type something in place of "", in this case, just your netid with no "<>" characters (e.g.; for <your_netid>@sphinx.ag.utk.edu, one might type jdoe@sphinx.ag.utk.edu).

Setting up your directory for this course

It's jumping ahead a bit, but don't worry, we'll be going over all of these commands in depth soon! For now, we'll change to a premade directory for this workshop:

cd /pickett_shared/teaching/CLI_workshop/analysis/<your_netid>

...then download and unzip the dataset we'll be using for this workshop:

wget https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/data/shell-lesson-data.zip
unzip shell-lesson-data.zip