Unix Tutorials

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
  
  

Tutorial Seven

• Compiling UNIX software packages
  

Tutorial Eight

• UNIX variables
• Environment variables
• Shell variables
• Using and setting variables