Goal: A quick review and suggestion of other commands and areas of Linux to explore further after this workshop that you’ll find useful.

More Intermediate Features

• Environment Variables: Define the behavior of the environment: Try:

  • echo $HOME

  • echo $USER

  • echo $SHELL

  • echo $PATH

• File searching/manipulation

  • sed: stream editor for filtering and transforming text

    • $ sed 's/windows/linux/2' fav_os.txt

    • Above command would substitute the 2nd instance of string ‘windows’ in each line of the fav_os.txt file with string ‘linux’, but leave the any following instances of ‘windows’ alone in the file.

  • gawk: pattern scanning and processing language

    • Scan specifying field separators, assign variables, specif source type, etc.

• Ability to update file permission and ownership: chmod/chown

  • User-case of sharing files/folders.

More Intermediate Features

• Aliases in .bashrc.

  • Create short-cuts of popular/frequently used commands.

• Text editors: vi/vim/nano

  • vimtutor

  • touch

• Remote access with ssh.

Next Steps, Suggestions

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• Wiki: ARCC Wiki

• Portal: https://arccwiki.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals

Summary

In this workshop we have:

• How to search for a string within a file.

• How to find a file.

• How to redirect the output of a command into a file.

• How to use pipes to direct the output of one command as the input into another command.

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