Using the Terminal
Goals: Introduction to using a Terminal
What does a prompt look like?
General syntax of shell command.
Commands/options are case sensitive.
Getting Help:
Man pages (
man
)Options:
<command> --help
Login
Open up Chrome
Navigate to: MedicineBow OnDemand
Type in your provided username and password. Usually this will be your UWYO username and password, unless you are using an assigned training account.
Authenticate using your preferred 2 factor method (expandable directions below):
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The Command-Line Prompt
Your Prompt
From now on, your prompt will take the form: [<username>@<hostname> ~]$
where:
<username>
is YOUR username or potentiallyarcc-txx
if you are using a training account.<hostname>
will take the form ofmblog1
,mblog2
- it should havelog
within the name to indicate you are using a login node - this will be covered within the Intro to HPC workshop, specifically What is HPC?
Syntax of a Shell Command
Linux IS Case Sensitive
In Linux, commands, options, folder, filenames… are Case Sensitive.
# Lists what is in the current location.
[<username>@<hostname> ~]$ ls
Desktop Documents Downloads
# Throws an error.
[<username>@<hostname> ~]$ LS
-bash: LS: command not found
Filename ≠ FiLeNaMe ≠ FILENAME
Remember: Filename ≠ FiLeNaMe ≠ FILENAME
Getting Help: man
[<username>@<hostname> ~]$ man ls
LS(1) User Commands LS(1)
NAME
ls - list directory contents
SYNOPSIS
ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries alpha‐
betically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a, --all
do not ignore entries starting with .
-A, --almost-all
do not list implied . and ..
...
Manual page ls(1) line 1 (press h for help or q to quit)
Getting Help: <command --help>
[<username>@<hostname> ~]$ ls --help
Usage: ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a, --all do not ignore entries starting with .
-A, --almost-all do not list implied . and ..
--author with -l, print the author of each file
-b, --escape print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters
--block-size=SIZE with -l, scale sizes by SIZE when printing them;
e.g., '--block-size=M'; see SIZE format below
-B, --ignore-backups do not list implied entries ending with ~
...
Getting Help: Options
Single vs Multiple Lines
Exercises
Answers(1)
1: Is there a difference between running ls
versus ls -al
?
Answers(2)
2: How would you find out what the –al
options do?
Answers(3, 4)
3: What does the pwd
command do?
4: From the command line, what happens if you press the up/down arrow keys?
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