Description:

The Unix shell is a useful operating system to most researchers who are doing any type of programming. The Unix shell is powerful and often the fastest and most direct way to work with files, folders, executing programs, etc. Also, most programmers operate in this OS, due to the simplicity and control over the system.

In this tutorial, you will be introduced the command line and learn basic commands. You are encouraged to bring your laptop to join along. If you are a Windows user and do not have a command line editor, you will want to install X-Win32.

The Researcher's Toolkit is a technology workshop series designed to help Northwestern researchers improve scholarly productivity and efficiency in the areas of programming, data analysis, scientific computing, data management, publication skills, and GIS.