Basic Linux commands
‼️ To begin make sure you have a user account at CSC that is a member of a project which has access to the Puhti service.
☝🏻 You should also have already logged in to Puhti with SSH or via the Puhti web interface (and opened a login node shell).
Navigating folders
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Now that you have logged in to Puhti, check which folder you are in by typing
pwd
and hittingEnter
:pwd
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Check if there are any files:
ls
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Make a directory and see if it appears:
mkdir YourNameTestFolder # replace YourName ls
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Go to that folder.
cd YourNameTestFolder # replace YourName
💡 Note: if you just type cd
and the first letter of the folder name, then hit tab
key, the terminal completes the name. Handy!
Exploring files
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Download a file into this new folder. Use the command
wget
for downloading from a URL:wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csc-training/csc-env-eff/master/part-1/prerequisites/my-first-file.txt
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Check what kind of file you got and what size it is using the
ls
command with some extra options:ls -lth # options are l for long format, t for sorting by time and h for convenient size units. Anything that starts with a hashtag is a comment and is not executed
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Use the
less
command to check out what the file looks like:less my-first-file.txt
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To exit the
less
preview of the file, hitq
.💡 Tip: Instead of
less
you can usecat
which prints the content of the file(s) straight into the command line. For long textsless
is recommended. -
Make a copy of this file:
cp my-first-file.txt YourName-first-file.txt # replace YourName ls -lth less YourName-first-file.txt # replace YourName
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Remove the file we originally downloaded (leave your own copy).
rm my-first-file.txt ls
💡 Tip: If you don’t want to have duplicate files you can use mv
to ‘move/rename’ the file. Syntax is the same: mv /path/to/source/oldname /path/to/destination/newname
.
More information
- Learn how to edit that file in the next tutorial!
💡 For more information of a given command line command
: type man command
or command --help
where command
is replaced with the one that you need help with.
💡 Tip: If you remember a part of a command that you have used recently you can search for it with the command history | grep string
. This will show all your used commands that have included the string string
(replace this with the pattern you are searching for).