Introduction to The UNIX operating system

Chapter 1

  • Listing files and directories
  • Making Directories
  • Changing to a different Directory
  • The directories . and ..
  • Pathnames
  • More about home directories and pathnames
Chapter 2
  • Copying Files
  • Moving Files
  • Removing Files and directories
  • Displaying the contents of a file on the screen
  • Searching the contents of a file
Chapter 3
  • Redirection
  • Redirecting the Output
  • Redirecting the Input
  • Pipes
Chapter 4
  • Wildcards
  • Filename Conventions
  • Getting Help
Chapter 5
  • File system security (access rights)
  • Changing access rights
  • Processes and Jobs
  • Listing suspended and background processes
  • Killing a process
Chapter 6
  • Other Useful UNIX commands
Chapter 7
  • Compiling UNIX software packages
  • Download source code
  • Extracting source code
  • Configuring and creating the Makefile
  • Building the package
  • Running the software
  • Stripping unnecessary code
Chapter 8
  • UNIX variables
  • Environment variables
  • Shell variables
  • Using and setting variables