Bash

Question

Explain briefly the term Bash in the Unix for Bioinformatics.

Answer 1

A) Bash gives you a login prompt, much like the Windows cmd.exe program

B) Filesystem looks very different from Windows

C) Everything in Unix/Linux is a file

D) Hard references link to block addresses in /dev

E) Soft references (symlinks) allow files to be linked but not copied (like a shortcut)

F) Unix is case-sensitive – MyFile.txt != myfile.txt

G) Users have a `home' directory - /home/username or /usr/users/username

H) /boot holds OS boot information, including the kernel itself

I/etc holds configuration data

J) /lib holds userspace and kernel modules and libraries

K) /usr holds applications