Google Colab Commands

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Running a Cell

SHIFT + ENTER

Executing Bash Commands

Simply add an ! before, for example:

!ls '/content/gdrive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks/'

Let’s check the information of OS, processors and RAM they are using:

!cat /proc/version
!cat /proc/cpuinfo
!cat /proc/meminfo

Uploading Files

You can simply upload files manually to your Google Drive, and access them using codes above. Alternatively, you can use the following code:

from google.colab import files
uploaded = files.upload()

Libraries

Installing Libraries

Use pip in bash command:

!pip install <PACKAGE_NAME>

Bash Commands

Bash commands can be run by prefixing the command with ‘!’.

• Cloning a git repository

!git clone [git clone url]

• Directory commands !ls, !mkdir.

!ls

Installing Libraries

Although most of the commonly used Python libraries are pre-installed, new libraries can be installed using the below packages:

!pip install [package name]

OR

!apt-get install [package name]

Referneces for MPI on python

• https://rabernat.github.io/research_computing/parallel-programming-with-mpi-for-python.html
• https://github.com/xhzhao/PyTorch-MPI-DDP-example