Intermediate Unix/Linux Home

Welcome to the Home page for the CBRS Intermediate Unix/Linux short course 9am - noon on Wednesday April 29 and Friday May 1.

This course builds on the concepts introduced in our Introduction to Unix/Linux course. As we review those concepts we'll extend them, especially concentrating on manipulating text We will also explore effective use of Unix tools such as cut, sort, awk, grep, sed, and perl.

Outline

• Getting Started

• Part 1: Review of some basics

• Part 2: Working with files

• Part 3: Working with 3rd party program I/O

• Part 4: Advanced text manipulation

Related courses

The third short course in our Unix series, Advanced Bash Scripting will be offered Wednesday May 6 and Friday May 8, 9am - noon.

For more Linux practice in the context of bioinformatics analyses, the CBRS offers 4 or 5 half-day workshops with lots of hands-on experience.

https://research.utexas.edu/cbrs/big-data-summer-school workshops (May, June 2026)

Resources

• Our Introduction to Unix/Linux wiki

• Some Linux commands – introduces many useful Linux commands and common options

• Decimal and Hexadecimal – base 10 and base 16 numeric systems

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