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Introduction to the Bash Command Line

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Introduction to the Bash Command Line _ Programming Historian-s.pdf (871.44 KB)

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2014-09-20

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Milligan, Ian
Baker, James

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The Editorial Board of the Programming Historian

Abstract

This lesson uses a Unix shell, which is a command-line interpreter that provides a user interface for the Unix operating system and for Unix-like systems. This lesson will cover a small number of basic commands. By the end of this tutorial you will be able to navigate through your file system and find files, open them, perform basic data manipulation tasks such as combining and copying files, as well as both reading them and making relatively simple edits. These commands constitute the building blocks upon which more complex commands can be constructed to fit your research data or project.

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This article Published by the Editorial Board of the Programming Historian is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. Available at: http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/intro-to-bash

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Bash command line, Guides and tutorials, Data manipulation

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http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/intro-to-bash
 http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11749

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