Introduction to Unix: Melbourne Bioinformatics
Description
A hands-on workshop covering the basics of the Unix command line interface.
Knowledge of the Unix operating system is fundamental to the use of many popular bioinformatics command-line tools. Whether you choose to run your analyses locally or on a high-performance computing system, knowing your way around a command-line interface is highly valuable. This workshop will introduce you to Unix concepts by way of a series of hands-on exercises.
This workshop is designed for participants with little or no command-line knowledge.
Tools: Standard Unix commands, FileZilla
Topic overview:
Section 1: Getting started
Section 2: Exploring your current directory
Section 3: Making and changing directories
Section 4: Viewing and manipulating files
Section 5: Removing files and directories
Section 6: Searching files
Section 7: Putting it all together
Section 8: Transferring files
Learning Objectives
At the end of this introductory workshop, you will:
- Access a Unix machine either locally or remotely
- Navigate the file system
- Organise your files into directories
- Change file permissions to improve security and safety
- Move and copy files between directories
- Safely remove files
- Perform searches within files
- Combine commands using pipes
- Transfer files between a local and remote machine
Tutorial instructions available here
The zipped directory below contains required data files.
For queries relating to this workshop, contact Melbourne Bioinformatics (bioinformatics-training@unimelb.edu.au).
Find out when we are next running this training as an in-person workshop, by visiting the Melbourne Bioinformaitcs Eventbrite page.
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