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Finally we have gotten to the point where we are developing the necessary skills to do some data manipulation! In this lesson we'll learn just a few simple unix-based commands that can make your life easier and faster. We'll learn to read in a data file, and do some computation with its contents.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
- Do some simple file manipulation from the terminal prompt
What is due for Lesson 7?
This lesson will take us one week to complete, 30 June - 6 July 2021. The deliverable for this lesson is only a reading discussion. The Unix exercises are all in a non-graded form ("Try This!", "Quiz Yourself", etc.) but you should take the time to work through them anyway because knowing some of these simple tricks will save you a lot of headaches in Lesson 8 and anytime you want to import a dataset into Processing to make a plot out of it.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please post them to our Questions? discussion forum (not e-mail) in Canvas. I will check that discussion forum daily to respond. While you are there, feel free to post your own responses if you, too, are able to help out a classmate.