What is Linux 🐧

What is Linux 🐧

• Linux is a family of operating systems

What is Linux 🐧

• Linux is a family of operating systems
• Just like Windows or MacOs!

Why should I care ❓

Why should I care ❓

• The majority of servers run Linux!

The CPSC Department's servers

• In CPSC 213, all your assignments will be handed in through the CPSC department's linux servers

What you need to install 🏗

• An ssh client
• An SFTP client

Windows

Xmanager

Mac

ssh is natively installed 🕺

CyberDuck for SFTP 🦆

Visual Studio Code

• Install VS code from their website

Visual Studio Code

• Install VS code from their website
• Install the Visual studio Remote extension

Visual Studio Code

• Install VS code from their website
• Install the Visual studio Remote extension
• Setup the Ubc server using the extension. Use the following:

ssh <CWL>@remote.students.cs.ubc.ca

Visual Studio Code

• Install VS code from their website
• Install the Visual studio Remote extension
• Setup the Ubc server using the extension. Use the following:

ssh <CWL>@remote.students.cs.ubc.ca

• Celebrate because you're connected to the server 🔥

Common commands

The ls command

ls lists all the files and directories in your current directory. Example:

tarikesh@valder:~/tarik/code$ ls
file.txt folder file2.txt

The cd command

cd changes your current directory. You can think of this as double clicking a folder!

tarikesh@valdes:~/tarik/code$ cd folder
tarikesh@valdes:~/tarik/code/folder$ cd ..
tarikesh@valdes:~/tarik/code$

Common commands

The pwd command

pwd prints you current working directory. Meaning it prints the path from the root of the device to your current directory.

tarikesh@valdes:~/tarik/code$ pwd
/home/t/tarikesh/tarik/code

The cat command

cat prints the contents of a file

tarikesh@valdes:~/tarik/code$ cat file.txt
I am what is inside that file!

What you need for CPSC 213

• A folder named cs-213 in your home directory
• A folder named aX inside the cs-213 directory for each assignment. Replacing the X with the assignment number (i.e Assignment 1 needs an a1 folder)

~
└── cs-213
    └── a1

Handin ✔️

In order to hand-in your assignments, you would use the handin command as follows:

tarikesh@valdes:~$ handin cs-213 a1

And if you'd like to overwrite a submission

tarikesh@valdes:~$ handin -o cs-213 a1