Customizing Your Computing Environment with Unix Commands

There are two main topics included in this lesson. They will give you a basic understanding of how to identify and modify the computing environment on your HPC resource to meet the needs of your software application. You should read all the lesson content and perform the exercises to get the most from the course.

The Login Shell

In this section, you will learn about a computer program called the login shell, used to interact with an HPC resource. At the end of the lesson, you will know what a login shell is and the various shell programs available. You will also be able to identify your default shell program and how to change it to another shell program.

Environment Variables

In this section, you will learn about variables the login shell uses that affect your user environment. At the end of the lesson, you will be about to list the environment variables and their values set for your user environment. You will also be able to change their values and create new ones.