Use the tarball with exercises

Goal

You can run the example files needed for the exercises

A tarball is a file that contains multiple files, similar to a zip file. To use the files it contains, it needs to be untarred/unzipped/uncompressed first.

Procedure

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The procedure has these steps:

• Don’t you have a work directory yet?

  • Step 2: Make a work directory

• Get the tarball

• Uncompress the tarball

Step 1: get the tarball

• In a terminal, cd to a good directory to keep the exercises (for instance in your just created folder in the project directory)

• You may create a new folder (mkdir), called exercises or similar).

• Use the following command to download the file to your current folder:

day2day3 (wait until that day)day4 (wait until that day)

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wget ...

How does that look like?

Your output will look somewhat like this:

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[sven@rackham3 ~]$ wget

Step 2: Uncompress the tarball

In a terminal, use the following command to uncompress the file:

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day 2day 3 (wait until that day)day 4 (wait until that day)

tar -xvzf exercisesDay2.tar.gz

After decompressing, there is a folder called day2, or day3 or day4 that contains the exercises.

Warning

Do you want the whole repo?

• If you are happy with just the exercises, the tarballs of the language specific ones are enough.

• By cloning the whole repo, you get all the materials, planning documents, and exercises.

• If you think this makes sense type this in the command line in the directory you want it. - git clone https://github.com/UPPMAX/HPC-python.git

• Note however, that if you during exercise work modify files, they will be overwritten if you make git pull (like if the teacher needs to modify something).

  • Then make a copy somewhere else with your answers!