Linux 101

Resources

One of the most popular online tutorials by electronic engineers: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
Some basic linux commands by Dr. Allen McNamara (a geophysics professor at MSU EES): https://msu.edu/~allenmc/GLG873/2017-Linux_and_VI_basics.pdf
Introduction to Unix by Andrew Newman (a geophysics professor at Georgia Tech): http://geophysics.eas.gatech.edu/classes/Intro_Unix/

Below is a checklist of what you should know about Linux/macOS and CLI:

Familiar with the file system, and especially the HOME directory
Commands cd, ls, pwd, mkdir, rmdir, cp, rm, mv
What is a Shell (bash/csh) script? https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-what-is-shell.htm
Absolute paths and relative paths
the environment variable PATH
meaning of file permissions rwx and chmod command
Commands: cat, touch, head, tail, which
Understand what's purpose of file ~/.bashrc
how to use input/output redirection >, >>, <<
how to use PIPE |
how to use wildcards ?, *, [] to match mutiple files or directories
how to compress and uncompress files using tar, gzip, bzip2
Command for data processing awk, cut, grep, wc, sort, uniq
learn the vim editor, which is the only text editor available on Linux servers.

Download the data for the Python training: (python-training.tar.gz)

Use a bash/csh script to automatically copy each of 'ISClauraw?.lst' files to a new directory with a new name 'MSUtrain?.dat'.
Use awk to extract only the columns of latitude and longitude from 'ISClauraw?.lst' files and output to 'epicenter?.lst'
Sort each of 'ISClauraw?.lst' files based on 'mb' (body-wave magnitude), latitude, or depth, and output to another file
Use a bash/csh script to generate 50 new files based on the first 50 earthquakes in 'ISClauraw1.lst'. Each file should be named after the earthquake ID (e.g., 51839.info or 51844.info), and contains the earthquake information in the following format:

ID: 51839

Data: 12/08/09

Time: 05:55:42.37

Latitude: -17.8483

Longitude: -178.0777

Depth: 590.0 (don't include the letter "f" if there is one)

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