- get logged on to the local machine
- open a terminal
- ssh to babel
- change your password
- use ls, pwd,  and cd to explore a bit
- using absolute pathway, find a file in /corpora/celex/english/epl or one of its subdirectories that's  that has a size of 6265 bytes (hints: ls -lR) (advanced hint: pipe through grep)
- experiment with "wildcards".
- create a dummy file named "junk" by typing "touch junk"
- view the contents of your .cshrc file by typing "cat .cshrc"
- make a back-up copy of your .cshrc file (hint: name it something like ".cshrc.bk01")
- copy your .cshrc file to a file named junk.  what happened?  what if you had had something important in junk?
- look at the man page for cp to find out how to make it prompt you before clobbering existing files
- add an alias to your .cshrc file to make cp prompt you before clobbering existing files
- at the command line, type "source .cshrc" to make the alias take effect
- try to copy your .cshrc file to a file named junk.  what happened?  is that better?
- read the man page for the "mv" command to find out how to make it prompt you before clobbering a file
- make a back-up copy of your .cshrc file
- add an alias to make mv prompt you before clobbering files
- source your .cshrc file
- test mv, using the "junk" file