Next: Introduction
USING UNIX
Phil Boyland
Fall, 1992 (revised Fall, 1998)
- Introduction
- UNIX Commands
- Getting Help
- The UNIX File System
- What the Prompt is Telling You
- Ways to Refer to Files (*, ~, .., .)
- Listing the Contents of a Directory (ls)
- Moving, Copying and Removing Files (mv, cp, rm)
- Changing, Creating and Removing Directories (cd, mkdir, rmdir)
- Looking at the Contents of a File (more, head, tail, cat)
- Printing Files (lp, lpstat, cancel)
- Comparing and Concatenating Files (diff, cat)
- Checking Spelling (spell, ispell)
- Searching For and Inside Files (find, grep)
- Compressing and Encrypting Files (gzip, gunzip, zcat, crypt)
- Changing the Permissions on a File (chmod)
- Getting Information (whoami, pwd, finger, setenv, jobs, ps, history)
- Killing Jobs and Processes (kill)
- Repeating and Changing Commands (!, ^)
- Command Aliases (alias)
- Pipes and Redirects (|, >, >>, <)
- Startup Files (.login, .cshrc, .mailrc, etc.)
- About this document ...