Introduction

Welcome to the Linux tutorial, a comprehensive guide designed to give you essential skills for smooth interaction within a Linux environment.

These skills are important to the HPC-UGent infrastructure, which operates on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For more information see introduction to HPC.

The guide aims to make you familiar with the Linux command line environment quickly.

The tutorial goes through the following steps:

1. Getting Started
2. Navigating
3. Manipulating files and directories
4. Uploading files
5. Beyond the basics

Do not forget Common pitfalls, as this can save you some troubleshooting.

Useful topics

• More on the HPC infrastructure.
• Cron Scripts: run scripts automatically at periodically fixed times, dates, or intervals.