UNIX Tutorial

Introducing UNIX and the shell

Logging into and out of your UNIX account, setting your password — commands: whoami, passwd, logout

Introducing the filesystem, working with files and folders — commands: pwd, ls, cd

Creating, moving, and deleting files and folders, setting permissions — commands: mkdir, rmdir, cp, mv, rm, chmod

Viewing and changing file contents — commands: cat, less, pico

Using the UNIX printing system — commands: lpr, lpq, lprm, enscript

Seeing who else is logged in and what they're up to — commands: who, w, last

Using the built-in UNIX documentation system — commands: man

Using files for input and output instead of the keyboard and screen — commands: mail

Chaining commands together to create custom tools on the fly — commands: cut, sort, pr, wc

Seeing what processess are running and how many resources they are using — commands: ps, top

Starting and stopping processes — commands: bg, fg, suspend, kill, nice, nohup

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