Introduction to the Linux Command Line

This course is offered by Wits Bioinformatic as part of its NIH H3A Africa Bionet and AWIGEN activities

Course details

• Monday, 27 May 2013. 13:15-16:45. Held at Wits (venue TBC)
• Prerequisite: basic computer literacy

Course description

Although graphical user interfaces (GUI) are a powerful, intuitive and flexible way of using computers, some advanced activities are difficult or inconvenient to do with a GUI. The command line interface (CLI) provides increased power and flexibility to complement the use of the GUI. Many bioinformatics activities are made much easier with the CLI. This short course gives a brief introduction to the command line interface that is used by Linux, MacOS and other Unix style systems.

• Introduction to GNU/Linux and bash
• Using and accessing the file system (including directory and file management)
• Running jobs and process control
• Pipes and redirection
• Setting and querying environment variables
• Key shell and command line commands including tar/zip/grep/cut
• Brief introductionto virtualisation.

To attend

• Please paste the form below into an email, fill in the details and send to cli2013@bioinf.wits.ac.za.
• Participants of our Genome Wide Association course who wish to attend this Linux course should note this on their application for the GWA course and need not send in a separate request
• There is no charge.
• Numbers are limited. We'll start to make selections on 20 April so applications should be received by 19 April.

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