UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

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UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

These tutorials are derived from the excellent tutorials from the University of Surrey, UK, with some minor modifications for our site. The originals can be found here.

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

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.

This tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

The original version was prepared and is copyrighted by Michael Stonebank of the University of Surrey, UK.

Online:

http://manuals.itc.virginia.edu/unixtut/index.html