Advanced computing power is hidden away in clouds/cluster/supercomputers that you do not have a click and point access to. As a general rule, these high-performance computer resources use Linux operating systems and are accessible only by a shell terminal and we are here to teach you to obtain skills to master the terminal in your future work.

This course is aimed to provide basic survival skills in Linux and the terminal environment. We will teach you how to access files and folders, move around and hopefully shake off the fear of getting stuck somewhere along the way.

Objectives:
* Obtain basic knowledge on dealing with files using command line (Linux or Mac)
* Learn how to use search over several text files, combine files, extract certain knowledge.
* Tips and tricks for effective command line hacks that would save a lot of time.

No prior knowledge expected.