Introduction to Bash and the Unix Shell

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If you’re new to the command line or spend most of your time on Windows machines, our campus Software Carpentry instructors will teach you about the Unix shell (specifically Bash). Topics covered will include navigating files and directories, searching with grep and find, using pipes and filters to combine commands, using loops to perform the same actions on many files, and using shell scripts to store your commands. For a general outline of the workshop, see http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/ . You can bring your own laptop if you wish (even Windows — you may want to install Git Bash if you’re interested in the Git workshops as well). We plan to offer this lesson in a computer lab if you’d like to use a Linux system. If you’re interested in the Git lessons but haven’t had much command line experience, we recommend taking this workshop before the Introduction to Git workshop.