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The Unix shell has been around longer than most of its users have been alive. It has survived because it's a powerful tool that allows users to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just a few keystrokes or lines of code. It helps users automate repetitive tasks and easily combine smaller tasks into larger, more powerful workflows.
Use of the shell is fundamental to a wide range of advanced computing tasks, including high-performance computing. These lessons will introduce you to this powerful tool.
Please note that these materials were imported and modified from the Software Carpentry shell-novice repository. The original Creative Commons license can be found here. Software Carpentry does not endorse HPCBio's version of this lesson.
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This lesson guides you through the basics of file systems and the shell. If you have stored files on a computer at all and recognize the word "file" and either "directory" or "folder" (two common words for the same thing), you're ready for this lesson.
If you're already comfortable manipulating files and directories,
searching for files with grep and find, and writing simple loops
and scripts, you probably want to explore the next lesson:
shell-extras.
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