Introduction to Unix: Melbourne Bioinformatics

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.