Life in a Shell

A series of talks on introduction to working with linux for scientific computing

• Life in a shell: Becoming a Linux power user (slowly) Slides [PDF] | Example files Sandbox.zip
• Life in a shell: Shells, variables and basic commands: Slides [PDF]
• Other resoruces on the web
  • Encylopedic Advanced Bash Scripting Guide; don't be intimidated, the first two sections are very accessible.
  • Bash Tutorial, in the form of 12 worked case studies.
  • awk and sed tutorials, and anything at this site http://www.theunixschool.com.

Random bash shell scripts that I find useful

• Proto.sh 
  Prototype bash script that I base all of my scripts on
• SBupload.sh 
  SiteBuilder up-load script. Upload files from the command line! (Warwick-specific)
• WFupload.sh 
  Warwick Files up-load script. Upload files from the command line! (Warwick-specific)
• Linux Group Access Control 
  Tips on controlling access for shared work areas on a linux cluster (possibly only useful locally to Warwick Statistics!)
• Bootcamp