Linux Tools
15 Oct 2026 09:00 - 13:00
Discover Essential Linux Tools for Research and Everyday Use.
Practical information:
15 Oct 2026 09:00 - 13:00
4 hours
Online
English
Target audience: This course is primarily targeted at current VSC-users.
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- Prerequisites: Having a basic knowledge of Linux is expected (if not please follow first the Linux-introduction course). Users that want to use VSC account for hands-on sessions should already have a VSC account created and should have followed HPC introduction and Linux for HPC or should have the equivalent knowledge
- Price: Free
This course will give an introduction to several useful Linux tools useful in academic research and everyday use of the system.
- Brief introduction to script files in Bash shell
- Using quotes
- Command line parameters
- i/o and pipes
- Useful commands: grep, cut, uniq, tr, sort, join
- Linux tools: awk, sed
- Data visualization - Gnuplot
- Image processing: ImageMagick
- Using Linux scripting in writing PBS scripts for HPC
- This course provides hands-on sessions
Result/Objectives
- Understanding and writing short Linux scripts
- Getting familiar sophisticated Linux commands
- Being able to use Linux tools for processing i/o data
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