UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
This tutorial was written by M. Stonebank of the University of Surrey and slightly modified for Linux and the bash shell by C. Tothill of the University of Bristol
- 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
The original (for UNIX/csh) of 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
