====== Learning Linux ======

===== Objectives =====
  * Learn about the filesystem
    * Absolute path versus relative path
    * The '/' (root) and '~/' (home) directory
    * File/directory ownership and permissions
  * Learn about the Bourne-again shell (Bash) and basic shell commands
    * Customize the shell environment
    * Redirection (''>'') and pipe (''|'')
    * Job control: put a job in background, force quit (Control-C), kill
    * [[tutorials:linux_essential_commands|Linux essential commands]]
  * Learn about the Secure Shell (SSH) and remote access, see [[tutorials:remote_access|Remote access]]
  * System administration if you are really interested

===== References =====
==== Books ====
  * [[http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926646|Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills]], Gibas and Jambeck, O'Reilly. The Chinese version is [[http://www.oreilly.com.tw/product_others.php?id=a116|生物資訊學電腦技術]]. 
  * Unix Power Tools, Peek et al., O'Reilly. The Chinese version is in two parts: [[http://www.oreilly.com.tw/product_unix.php?id=a169|Unix 超級工具 第三版（上冊）]] and [[http://www.oreilly.com.tw/product_unix.php?id=a170|Unix 超級工具 第三版（下冊）]]. [[http://doc.novsu.ac.ru/oreilly/unix/upt/index.htm|Full text here]].

==== Web ====
  * [[http://korflab.ucdavis.edu/Unix_and_Perl/|Unix and Perl Primer for Biologists by Keith Bradnam & Ian Korf]]
  * [[http://stein.cshl.org/genome_informatics/|Bioinformatics workshop by Lincoln Stein]]
  * [[http://linux.vbird.org/|鳥哥的 Linux 私房菜]]