UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

• Quick Reference Commands
• Typographical Conventions
  
• Introduction to The UNIX operating system
• 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