Week 5 overview

Due dates:¶

Homework 1: Due Thursday, 2/19, 3PM EST

Learning Objectives:¶

1. The Linux command line shell continued

   a. chmod: file and directory permissions

2. Linux shell scripting

Participatory Activities¶

Tue. Feb. 17:¶

1. Sign into the primary class JupyterHub and follow along with the class lecture

Thu. Feb. 19:¶

1. Homework 1 is due now!

2. In your Jupyterlab terminal session, create a folder named 260219. Then cd into that directory, and copy all files from /spare11/atm350/common/feb19 into that directory.

3. Iowa State Mesonet Text Product Archive Documentation

4. Interactive retrieval of text products ... e.g. wget "https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/afos/retrieve.py?pil=AFDALY"

5. Iowa State Hourly Observations Help Page

6. Redirect and append output of wget

7. IA State product retrieval using a shell script

8. Expand utility and flexibility of the data retrieval shell scripts

References¶

1. Software Carpentry Unix/Linux Command-Line Shell Tutorial