UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
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Typographical Conventions
- Introduction
to The UNIX operating system
- Tutorial
One
- Listing files and directories
- Making Directories
- Changing to a different Directory
- The directories . and ..
- Pathnames
- More about home
directories and pathnames
- Tutorial
Two
- Copying Files
- Moving Files
- Removing Files and directories
- Displaying the contents of a file on the screen
- Searching the contents
of a file
- Tutorial
Three
- Redirection
- Redirecting the Output
- Redirecting the Input
- Pipes
- Tutorial
Four
- Wildcards
- Filename Conventions
- Getting Help
- Tutorial
Five
- File system security (access rights)
- Changing access rights
- Processes and Jobs
- Listing suspended and background processes
- Killing a process
- Tutorial
Six
- Other Useful UNIX
commands
- Other Useful UNIX
commands
- Tutorial
Seven
- Compiling UNIX software packages
- Download source code
- Extracting source code
- Configuring and creating the Makefile
- Building the package
- Running the software
- Stripping unnecessary
code
- Tutorial
Eight
- UNIX variables
- Environment variables
- Shell variables
- Using and setting
variables
- UNIX
Help for Users
- For more help with UNIX, try this guide from the University of Edinburgh
- History
of UNIX
- UNIX was originally developed at Bell Laboratories as a private research project by a small group of people. Read all about the history of its creation.
© 19 October 2001