Introduction to the Command-line Interface

Date: 

Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 1:30pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

TMEC 227 Mini Amphitheater

This class is part of the HMS Research Data Management Seminar Series

Registrationhttps://libcal.countway.harvard.edu/calendar/countway/command-line

Workshop 1: Introduction to the Command-line Interface

Many data analysis tools and computational resources require users to have a basic working knowledge of the command line interface (also referred to as UNIX, Linux, bash, shell). In this workshop participants will learn basic commands for performing simple tasks within a filesystem without the use of a point and click environment. 

Workshop scope:

  • Navigating the file system and exploring the folders/files using shell
  • Performing file operations, such as moving, copying, and renaming files
  • Exploring file contents
  • Creating new files and searching for content within

Note: You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop. Additional sessions in this series will build upon the topics covered.

Requirements: Participants should bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on.

Instructors: Radhika Khetani, Training Director, Research Scientist, Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH
Meeta Mistry, Research Scientist, Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH

Contactjulie_goldman@hms.harvard.edu  

 

Additional Seminars in this Series: 

 Seminar Title  Date Location  Registration
Introduction to the Command-line Interface Tuesday, June 18, 2019 TMEC 227 Mini Amphitheater bit.ly/RDM-Summer19
Introduction to High-Performance Computing using HMS’ O2 cluster Thursday, July 11, 2019 Countway Library, Minot Room bit.ly/RDM-Summer19
Version Control for Scripts, Data and Text documents Wednesday, August 21, 2019 TMEC 227 Mini Amphitheater bit.ly/RDM-Summer19