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* '''Motivation''': when starting a new project, it is very handy to ''quickly'' and ''easily'' set up a ''portable'' structure allowing the project to be ''backed-up'' on other machines, ''shared'' with collaborators and the work to be ''reproduced/replicated'' by colleagues. | * '''Motivation''': when starting a new project, it is very handy to ''quickly'' and ''easily'' set up a ''portable'' structure allowing the project to be ''backed-up'' on other machines, ''shared'' with collaborators and the work to be ''reproduced/replicated'' by colleagues. | ||
* '''OS choice''': concerning computers, one usually has a preferred [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system operating system]. Yet, in scientific projects where computing is an important aspect of research, the most frequent is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux GNU/Linux]. Thus, even if it's always good to know how to find our way on other operating systems, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows Microsoft Windows] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X Apple Mac OS X], I will focus in the following on GNU/Linux. | * '''OS choice''': concerning computers, one usually has a preferred [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system operating system]. Yet, in scientific projects where computing is an important aspect of research, the most frequent is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux GNU/Linux]. Thus, even if it's always good to know how to find our way on other operating systems, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows Microsoft Windows] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X Apple Mac OS X], I will focus in the following on GNU/Linux. | ||
* '''GNU/Linux''': if you begin on this OS, check out the following links! | |||
** [http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line/index/ tutorial] on the command-line; | |||
** [http://www.commentcamarche.net/faq/8386-kit-de-survie-linux kit] de survie Linux; | |||
** [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-unixtext/index.html lessons] on text manipulations; | |||
** [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ book] on advanced bash scripting. | |||
* '''Home''': | * '''Home''': |
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About organizing computer-based research
# Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH export PATH CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I$HOME/include" export CFLAGS LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$HOME/lib" export LDFLAGS export R_LIBS_USER=$HOME/src_ext/Rlibs export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/lib/python/:$PYTHONPATH
#!/usr/bin/env bash wget http://gnu.mirrors.hoobly.com/gnu/emacs/emacs-24.3.tar.gz tar xzvf emacs-24.3.tar.gz cd emacs-24.3 ./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-x-toolkit=no --with-xpm=no --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no make make install
#!/usr/bin/env bash # backup.bash <path_to_backup> >& backup.log & date RSYNC_OPT="--compress --recursive --times --perms --links --exclude="*~" --delete --delete-excluded --progress" rsync $RSYNC_OPT ~/remote1/work/project1 $1 rsync $RSYNC_OPT ~/remote1/work/project2 $1 date
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