UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
- Listing files and directories
- Making Directories
- Changing to a different Directory
- The directories . and ..
- Pathnames
- More about home directories and pathnames
- Copying Files
- Moving Files
- Removing Files and directories
- Displaying the contents of a file on the screen
- Searching the contents of a file
- Redirection
- Redirecting the Output
- Redirecting the Input
- Pipes
- Wildcards
- Filename Conventions
- Getting Help
- File system security (access rights)
- Changing access rights
- Processes and Jobs
- Listing suspended and background processes
- Killing a process
- Other Useful UNIX commands
- Compiling UNIX software packages
- Download source code
- Extracting source code
- Configuring and creating the Makefile
- Building the package
- Running the software
- Stripping unnecessary code
- UNIX variables
- Environment variables
- Shell variables
- Using and setting variables
Downloads
This tutorial is available for download in the following formats -
- For more help with UNIX, try this guide from the University of Edinburgh
- These seven articles contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions
often seen in comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shell.
- 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.
M.Stonebank@surrey.ac.uk, 19 October 2001
