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 ...