Some Sample Data

To help us understand some basic shell operations, we will all work with a collection of files and directories. Type (or copy/paste) the following commands into your terminal to get the files we need (we’ll explain their meaning later):

curl https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/data/shell-lesson-data.zip --output shell-lesson-data.zip
unzip shell-lesson-data.zip

Tip

Remember you can click on the copy button in the upper right of the text box and then paste into your terminal using Ctrl-Shift-v.

This data set comes from the Software Carpentry project.

This creates a directory on the filesystem named shell-lesson-data/. To begin, we want to “change directory” into that directory, using the cd command:

cd shell-lesson-data