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Homework 1 (L2)

Homework Assignment #1 (30 points)

For this assignment you will have until 5PM on Monday, January 20th to submit on Brightspace. Late assignments will NOT be accepted.

Directions for Students:

Open a new Microsoft Word Document, the first four lines of your document should contain the following:

  • Your name
  • MMG3320/5320
  • Today's date
  • Homework Assignment # 1

Task 1:

  • In the terminal, open the manual page for the rm command and skim through the information. What effect does adding the -i option to rm have?

Task 2:

  • Use the -lh option for the ls command to display more information for each item within the unit1_unix/genomics_data folder. Submit a screenshot of your terminal screen and underneath describe what additional information is provided that you didn't see with the bare ls command.

Task 3:

Submit one final screenshot of your terminal screen. Be sure to clear your terminal screen using + L before proceeding

1) Create a new folder in unit1_unix called selected_fastq
2) Make a copy of Irrel_kd_2.subset.fq and Mov10_oe_2.subset.fq from raw_fastq into the selected_fastq folder
3) Rename the selected_fastq folder and call it exercise1