This workshop teaches the basics of the bash shell. Many of the commands are similar in other shell environments, but they aren't covered here.

On Mac OSX, which is based on a Unix environment, you can use the built in terminal program (found in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder).

Windows, which is not Unix based, does not come with a bash shell. Please install GitBash.

DataCamp: Introduction to Shell for Data Science is a free online interactive tutorial with exercises. This is recommended for more practice and a review of material covered in the workshop (plus probably things we didn't get to).

Exercises and Exercise Solutions are written specifically for a linux system (like Quest). If you are working on a Mac or Windows computer, the exercises may not be relevant.

DataCamp: Introduction to Shell for Data Science: Free online course from DataCamp

Software Carpentry Command Line Workshop: workshop materials you can work through on your own; there are videos of non-Northwestern instructors giving the workshop at: video 1 and video 2

Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous by Michael Hartl, covers similar material to the two resources above.

Conquering the Command Line by Mark Bates is organized by command with subsections organized by the options for the commands. Makes for a clear reference with easy to navigate table of contents.

Command Line Bootcamp: an interactive tutorial in your browser, with all the essentials, by Richard Smith-Unna

Code Academy: Learn the Command Line: interactive, online tutorial; you can access the basic content for free, but not the exercises. A good, quick introduction to the basics like listing files and changing directories.

Practical Unix: good reference for learning lots about using the command line environment, beyond what is covered in this workshop.

Unix Tutorial for Beginners

The Art of Command Line: tutorial and reference to teach you the most common commands and tasks, with an awareness of differences with Mac and Windows

The Unix Workbench by Sean Kross, teaches multiple technologies that you use from the command line, including git and bash scripting. There is also a Coursera course of the same name.

Bash scripting is not usually part of the intro workshop; it's an intermediate to advanced topic.

Bash Guide for Beginners by Machtelt Garrels is a bash scripting book/tutorial with exercises.

Shell Scripting Tutorial for writing bash scripts.

commandlinefu.com: user submitted command line snippets to do specific tasks. Be careful with these though and only run commands you understand to avoid doing bad things to your computer.

Mac OSX Snippets: useful shell commands specific to Macs. Again, be careful.

Awesome Shell: Lots of

Command Line Cheat Sheet with just the essentials, plus short explanations of key concepts

Linux Command Line Cheat Sheet: another useful version with the essentials, plus some intermediate commands

vi Handout: handout from the workshop

vi Basics: a good short intro explaining vi and a list of common commands, with the key commands highlighted.

VI Cheat Sheet: for using the VI command line text editor

Bite Size Command Line by Julia Evans -- a short zine with essential commands. Buy it for $10.