4474, Table of Contents

1.0 Introduction to UNIX

• 1.1 What is an Operating System?
• 1.2 UNIX Layered Architecture
• 1.3 The UNIX Shell
• 1.4 The History of UNIX
• 1.5 The UNIX Philosophy

2.0 Getting Started

• 2.1 Logging In
• 2.2 The Window Manager
• 2.3 Changing Passwords
• 2.4 Playing Around A Little with date and cal
• 2.5 Logging Out

3.0 Communicating with Other Users

• 3.1 mail
• 3.2 write

4.0 The UNIX File System

• 4.1 Files
• 4.2 Directories
• 4.3 What's "Out There?" - Exploring the File System
• 4.4 File and Directory Naming Conventions
• 4.5 The Physical Organization of the UNIX File System

5.0 Managing Your File System

• 5.1 Listing Directories
• 5.2 Creating Directories
• 5.3 Moving Files
• 5.4 Changing Directories
• 5.5 Displaying the Current Working Directory
• 5.6 Copying Directories and Files
• 5.7 Removing Directories
• 5.8 Removing Files
• 5.9 The Link Command - ln
• 5.10 ln, cp and mv Compared

6.0 Working with Files

• 6.1 Reading Files - cat
• 6.2 Reading Files - more and page
• 6.3 Reading Files - pg
• 6.4 The file Command
• 6.5 Displaying the First n Lines of a File - head
• 6.6 Displaying the Last n Lines of a File - tail
• 6.7 Searching Files - grep
• 6.8 Sorting a File - sort
• 6.9 Getting Rid of Redundant Lines - uniq
• 6.10 Counting Characters, Words, and Lines - wc

7.0 The Shell

• 7.1 The Shells
• 7.2 Shell Startup
• 7.3 The Shell Command Line
• 7.4 Wildcards
• 7.5 Metasequencing
• 7.6 Redirecting Input and Output
• 7.7 Connecting Commands with Pipes
• 7.8 Filters
• 7.9 Process Management

8.0 The UNIX Editors - vi

9.0 The UNIX Editors - ex

10.0 Multitasking and Job Control

• 10.1 Jobs and Processes
• 10.2 Foreground and Background
• 10.3 Backgrounding and Killing Jobs
• 10.4 Stopping and Restarting Jobs

11.0 Tailoring Your Environment

• 11.1 Shell Initialization Scripts
• 11.2 Shell Variables and the Environment
• 11.3 Changing Your Environment: The Bourne-type Shell
• 11.4 Changing Your Environment: The C-type Shell
• 11.5 Safeguarding Your Files
• 11.6 Shell Scripts

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Last Modified: February, 2005