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Getting Started with UNIX

Clinton Wolfe
Spring 2000

This document is available in the following formats:

Web-based Tutorial
One Long Web Page
Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (for printing)

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
    • Why Learn UNIX?
    • Dealing with Culture Shock
    • Conventions Used in This Document
  • Getting an Account
    • What is an Account?
    • UITS UNIX Computers
    • Creating a New Account
  • Connecting to a UNIX Machine
    • Using Telnet
    • Your First Login
    • Logging Out
  • The Shell
    • What is a Shell?
    • Types of Shells
    • Environment Variables
  • Commands
    • Your First Command
    • Getting Into Arguments
    • Gluing Commands Together
    • What Happens When You Press Enter
    • Commands for Commands
  • Files
    • The Zen Nature of Filesystems
    • Commands for Files
    • Directories of Interest
  • Processes
    • The ps Command
    • Background Processes
    • Killing a Process
  • Common Tasks
    • Text Editing
    • Checking Mail
    • Moving Files Between Machines
    • Writing Scripts
    • Modifying your environment
    • Submitting Batch Jobs
    • Using Tapes
  • Further Reading

Permission to use this document is granted so long as the author is acknowledged and notified.
Please send comments and suggestions to:statmath@indiana.edu
Copyright 1995-2003, Indiana University.
Last modified: Wednesday, 19-Feb-2003 13:09:22 EST
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Copyright 2006, The Trustees of Indiana University

IU's involvement in the TeraGrid, and the presentation of this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.