Introduction to Linux in HPC/Users and permissions

HPC.NRW
Other HPC Courses
1.	Gprof Tutorial
2.	OpenMP in Small Bites
Introduction to Linux in HPC
1.	Background and History
2.	The Command Line
3.	Directory structure
4.	Files
5.	Text display and search
6.	Users and permissions
7.	Processes
8.	The vim text editor
9.	Shell scripting
10.	Environment variables
11.	System configuration
12.	SSH Connections
13.	SSH: Graphics and File Transfer
14.	Various tips

Video

( Slides as pdf)

Exercises in Terminal (slide 89)

1. Start a process (e.g. sleep 10m)

Answer:

     Use a second console to look at it in top.
     Kill it.
     Hint:
        To kill the started process (e.g. sleep 10m): 
        1. Go to the terminal that started the process.
        2. Press Ctrl-C to kill it.

2. Start a process, bring it into background/foreground.

Hint:

     To bring a process to background:
        Press Ctrl-Z (pause the process).
        Type bg (bring it to background).
     To bring a process to foreground:
        Type fg (bring it to foreground).

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