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UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

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
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

Downloads

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UNIX Help for Users

For more help with UNIX, try this guide from the University of Edinburgh

UNIX Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

These seven articles contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions often seen in comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shell.

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.

M.Stonebank@surrey.ac.uk, 19 October 2001

Creative Commons License

This tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons License.