Full course description
About This Training
This course is designed for Unix beginner and there are no pre-requirements for the course in terms of skills. SC4E: Intro to Unix is a prerequisite course for Supercomputing for Everyone Series courses, and it will help yourself well-prepared for other SC4E Series courses.
Length: 1-2 weeks
Certificate: Yes
Audience: IU students, faculty, staff, and non-IU collaborators with IU guest account
Goal
The goals of this course is to help supercomputer users learn the basic operations, commands, and knowledge in Unix including file system management, modify a file or directory, file security and access, and commonly used commands.
Contact
Research Technologies at cesg@iu.edu
Additional Information
To enroll in the course:
- Click “Enroll”
- Login to Expand if you have not already done so. (You will either use your IU credentials to login, or take steps to create a guest login if you do not have IU credentials.)
- Click “Enroll in Course”
- Select “Go to Your Dashboard”
- Locate the proper course under “In Progress” then select “Begin Course"
Course Modules
Section 1: Directory Management in Unix
- List and Make a Directory
- Change to a Different Directory
- Download Support Files
- Pathnames
Section 2: File Management in Unix
- Display a File Content
- Editor in Unix and Create a File
- Filename Convention
- Copy, Move, and Remove File or Directory
Section 3: More Actions in Unix
- Search the File Content
- Wildcards
- Compression and Decompression
- Download Files from Internet
- Getting Help and Documentation
Section 4: Redirection
- Redirection
- Redirect the Output
- Redirect the Input
- Redirect with pip
Section 5: System and File Security
- File System Security
- Change Access Right
- Unix Variables
- Module and Execute Job
Section 6: Advance Unix Operation (Optional)
- Other Interesting Commands
- Suspended and Killing Processes
- Bash File in Unix
- Write Program with Bash