Attendees learned how to move beyond the graphical interface and harness the efficiency of the command line. The workshop focused on practical skills that are essential for developers, sysadmins, and data scientists. Key topics included:
Navigating the Filesystem: Mastering commands like ls, cd, pwd, and understanding absolute vs. relative paths.
File Manipulation: Creating, moving, copying, and deleting files and directories with touch, mkdir, cp, mv, and rm.
Viewing and Processing Data: Using cat, less, head, tail, and grep to search through and inspect files.
The Art of Piping and Redirection: Connecting commands together with |, >, and >> to build powerful data pipelines.
Basic Scripting: Writing a simple script to automate a series of commands and understanding file permissions (chmod).
Thank you to Christian Goehart for hosting the workshop!
Sutton 231
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