UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

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

• Processes and Jobs
• Listing suspended and background processes
• Killing a process

Tutorial Six

• Other Useful UNIX commands

History of UNIX

• 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, September 1, 2010, August 20, 2015, and January 14, 2016.

This tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons License.