UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
List of commands (postscript version), A short list of Unix commands is available 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
- UNIX Help for Users
- Finally, for more help with UNIX, try this guide from the University of Edinburgh
M.Stonebank@surrey.ac.uk © 9th October 2000