Unix

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• Overview
  • Case sensitivity
  • The shell
  • Command syntax
  • Correcting typos
  • Controlling your terminal output
• Files and directories
  • Pathnames
  • Naming files and directories
• Online manual
• Basic commands
  • Logging on (rlogin)
  • Changing your password (passwd)
  • Getting out (exit)
  • Listing files (ls)
  • Catenate (cat)
  • Paging display system (more)
  • Copying files (cp)
  • Removing files (rm)
  • Renaming and moving files and directories (mv)
  • Navigating the directory tree (cd)
  • Directory creation and destruction (mkdir and rmdir)
• Additional commands
  • alias
  • ap
  • biff
  • chmod
  • compress/uncompress
  • df
  • diff
  • du
  • echo
  • find
  • finger
  • ftp
  • grep
  • history
  • kill
  • look
  • mail
  • ps
  • script
  • setenv
  • source
  • spell
  • tar
  • telnet
  • umask
  • who
  • A bunch more commands
• Login files
  • The .cshrc file
  • The .login file
• Special characters
  • Wildcards
  • Redirecting output
  • Pipes
  • Quote characters
  • Other special characters
• Miscellaneous tips
  • Removing files with strange names
  • Wildcards beyond the working directory
  • Terminal input in a shell script
  • Remote shell trick
  • Loops in scripts
  • More tricks
• Things to try