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Getting Started
What is UNIX? A Brief History of UNIX Logging In Logging Out Try a Few More Commands Changing Your Password Using On-line Manuals
The File System - Files
What is a File? The ls Command The cat Command The more and pg Commands The head and tail Commands The cp Command The mv Command The rm Command File names
The File System - Directories
Hierarchical File System Pathnames The pwd Command - Print Working Directory The cd Command - Change Directory The mkdir Command - Make Directories The rmdir Command - Remove Directories The cp Command (again) - Copy Files Two useful directory names - . and ..
Editing With vi
What is vi? The vi Buffering Process Command Mode and Insert Mode Modes Diagram Getting Started Moving the Cursor Around Inserting Text Deleting a Character or Line Undo Last Command Opening a New Line Save Your Work or Abort the Session Review of vi Commands
More Editing With vi
Scrolling the Buffer Cursor Motion Commands - w, W, b, B, e, E Cursor Motion Commands - $, ^, 0, G Cursor Motion Commands - f, t, F, T Delete Operator - d Change Operator - c Yank Operator - y Put Commands - p, P Searching For a Pattern - /, n, N, ? The join Command The file Command - :f Edit file Command - :e Cut and Paste Between Files Read file Command - :r Set options Command Set options Command - .exrc file
Personal Utilities
The date Utility The bc Utility The expr Utility The cal Utility The news Utility The id Utility The uname Utility The finger Utility The script Utility The clear Utility Appendix: The at and crontab Utilities
Text Handling Utilities
The grep Utility The tr Utility The cut Utility The paste Utility The sort Utility The wc Utility The diff Utility The lp Utility
File System Security
File Permissions The chmod Utility Directory Permissions The umask Command
File System Management Utilities
The find Utility The df Utility The du Utility Compressing Files The ln Utility The ulimit Utility The tar Utility
Communication Utilities
The write and talk Utilities The mesg Utility Mail Overview The mail Utility The mailx Utility
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Using the Shell
What is a Shell? Which Shell? The Command Line Standard Input, Standard Output and Standard Error Using Default Standard In and Standard Output I/O Redirection Appending Output of a File Pipes The tee Utility
Filename Generation
Filename Generation The ? special Character The * special Character The [ ] special Characters The ! special Characters
UNIX Processes
What is a Process? Process Structure The ps Utility Options to the ps Utility Background Commands Killing Background Processes Redirecting the Standard Error
Shell Programming Concepts
What is a Shell? What is a Shell Script? Why Use Shell Scripts?
Flow Control
The Exit Status of Commands Command Line Examples The test Command The if-then-else Construct The elif Construct A loop Example
Variables
User Created Variables The read Command The Shell Environment The export Command Sub-shells Command Substitution Quoting Mechanisms Assigning Variables - Summary
Special Variables
Command Line Arguments $- Number of Arguments The shift Command $* - All Arguments $$ - PID of Shell
More Flow Control
The for Loop The while Loop The Case Construct
Appendix: Korn shell features
Viewing your Command History Editing and Re-executing Commands Aliases
------------- Linux Specific Topics -------------- Getting Started with Linux
What is UNIX? A Brief History of UNIX Linux The Toolkit Philosophy Linux Distributions Free Software and Open Source Movements Logging In Logging Out Try a Few More Commands Changing Your Password Online Documentation - man Pages Online Documentation - info Pages
Networking Utilities - Linux
Remote Login with telnet Remote File Transfer With ftp Secure Login With ssh Secure File Transfer With scp Text-Based Web Access with lynx Web Access with wget and curl Samba Server Overview The smbclient Utility NFS File Sharing Overview
X Windows and Desktops - Linux
The X Window System Using X Window Managers and Desktops The Gnome Desktop The KDE Desktop Applications: The GIMP Applications: OpenOffice Applications: Web Browsers
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