12.7 More useful commands:

There are a number of simple commands that dx offers.

See what projects you have access to:

dx find projects

#Select the project you want from the above list:
dx select project-FbvPXyQ0pgP1PQbkJG1vfQpz

You can use cat to quickly preview files:

dx cat /test/words.that.begin.with.ni.txt | head -n10

## ni
## niacin
## niacinamide
## niacins
## niagara
## niagra
## niais
## niaiserie
## nialamide
## niata

set -x 
dx describe /test/words.that.begin.with.ni.txt

## + dx describe /test/words.that.begin.with.ni.txt
## Result 1:
## ID                  file-FgXgbfj0gzgbqx5KJ97V6J7j
## Class               file
## Project             project-FbvPXyQ0pgP1PQbkJG1vfQpz
## Folder              /test
## Name                words.that.begin.with.ni.txt
## State               closed
## Visibility          visible
## Types               -
## Properties          -
## Tags                -
## Outgoing links      -
## Created             Mon Dec  2 15:58:03 2019
## Created by          hartleys
##  via the job        job-FgXgbK80pgPJJ54XF2qK4zBp
## Last modified       Mon Dec  2 15:58:05 2019
## archivalState       "live"
## Media type          text/plain
## Size                10.33 KB

And you can use dx watch to examine a job in progress…

dx watch <jobid>