UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
- Listing files and directories
- Making Directories
- Changing to a different Directory
- The directories . and ..
- Pathnames
- More about home directories and pathnames
- Copying Files
- Moving Files
- Removing Files and directories
- Displaying the contents of a file on the screen
- Searching the contents of a file
- Redirection
- Redirecting the Output
- Redirecting the Input
- Pipes
- Wildcards
- Filename Conventions
- Getting Help
- Processes and Jobs
- Listing suspended and background processes
- Killing a process
- Other Useful UNIX commands
- UNIX was originally developed at Bell Laboratories as a private research
project by a small group of people. Read all about the history of its creation.
Attribution: This tutorial was originally designed and written by M.Stonebank@surrey.ac.uk, 19 October 2001; modified by Montek Singh, 1 Sep 2010, 20 Aug 2015, 22 Aug 2019, and 9 Jan 2020.
