Unix for Users - Contents

Login: The Front Door

• Normal Login
• Questions and Exercises - Login

Simple Unix Commands

• General Command Format
• Print Working Directory
• Change Working Directory
• List Files
• Concatenate and Print Files
• Page Through Files one Screen at a time
• Copy Files
• Remove Files
• Visual (Full Screen) Editor
• Make New Directory
• Count up the Words, Lines, and Characters in a file
• Closing Arguments
• Questions and Exercises - Simple Commands

The Unix File System

• Hierarchical Path to Grandma's House
• Tree Structured Hierarchical Directories
• Standard Directories
• Permissions
• Changing Ownership and Permissions
• Closing Arguments:
• Questions and Exercises - File System

Printing

• Pr
• Lp
• Lpstat
• Cancel
• Closing Arguments
• Questions and Exercises - Printing

Text Editing

• Vi
• Simple Positioning within Vi
• Changing Text
• Modes, Reading, Writing, and Quiting
• Advanced Positioning
• Advanced Changing Text
• Advanced Reading, Writing, and Quiting
• Closing Arguments:
• Questions and Exercises - Text Editing

Shell Interpreter Basics

• How commands are found
• Standard Files to each command
• Redirection of Input
• Redirection of Output
• Pipes
• Pipes and Tees - The Sequel
• Wildcard Substitutions
• Interrupting commands
• Background
• Timing Command execution
• Command History
• Command Editing (ksh only)
• How to learn and remember 300+ commands
• Closing Arguments:
• Questions and Exercises - Shell Interpreter Basics

Dealing with Unix Documentation

• Manual Sections
• New Improved Manual Sections
• Permuted Index
• The Man command
• Command Usage
• Error Numbers
• Closing Arguments:
• Questions and Exercises - Documentation

More Unix Commands

• Display Date and Time
• Display Current Users
• Display Calendar
• Desk Calculator
• Show Tail End of File
• Search for Text Strings
• Find File Names that match conditions
• Producing Checksum with sum
• Displaying the Difference Between Files
• Compressing Files
• Encrypting Files
• Communications
• Formatting Reports with Awk.
• Closing Arguments:

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