Tasks for Week 02

Complete parts One to Four of the Carpentries’ Shell Tutorial

  • Click here to access the tutorial. It has seven parts, which you’re welcome to do all of, but for now you should do at least the first four: Introducing the Shell, Navigating Files and Directories, Working with Files and Directories, and Pipes and Filters.

  • Don’t skip the Summary and Setup section! Amongst other things it has a zip file of sample material you will need to download in order to complete the tutorial.

  • If you are on Windows, remember to explicitly uncompress or expand the zip file you download before trying to use anything in it.

  • Complete the exercises in the Tutorial (don’t just read through them!) and make notes of any questions you want to raise in class about it.