Bash – How to Control your Computer by Typing Commands

by Philipp Matthias Schäfer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Dr Christian Knüpfer (Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Forschung, FSU Jena)

Tuesday 18 Jan 2022, 10:00 → 12:00 Europe/Berlin

Online (Zoom)

The Bash is an interactive interface to your operating systems. Instead of controlling your computer by clicking and dragging with the mouse you type in commands on the so-called command line or shell, and the Bash is the most wide-spread. Controlling your computer by hammering at the keyboard looks really old-fashioned and uncomfortable at the first glance. But if you are working with a lot of data or writing your own computer programs using the command line is a very efficient instrument. After some training period you will not want to miss it anymore. With its root in the Unix operating system, the bash is nowadays available for Linux, Mac OS as well as Microsoft Windows. In this workshop we will learn how to use Bash for:

• managing files and folders,
• starting and controlling programs,
• searching for files and within files,
• manipulating the content of files, and
• creating Bash scripts for repeating tasks.