UNIX Tutorial

Introduction to the UNIX Operating System

• What is UNIX?
• Files and processes
• The Directory Structure
• Starting an UNIX terminal

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