Contents

• Introduction
  • What is this thing?
  • Why read this thing?
• Contents
• Unix
  • 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
• Vi - Text Editing
  • Overview
  • Starting vi
  • Insert mode
  • Command mode
    • Moving around
    • Deleting text
    • Saving and quitting
    • Copy, delete, and moving text
    • Search and replace
    • Undo
    • Repeat
  • Vi reference
    • Notation for this reference
    • Move commands (See also Display commands)
    • Searching
    • Undoing changes
    • Inserting text
    • Deleting text
    • Changing text
    • Substitute replacement patterns
    • Remembering text (yanking)
    • Commands while in insert or change mode
    • Display commands (See also Move commands)
    • Writing, editing other files, and quitting vi
    • Macros
    • Switch and shell commands
    • Vi startup
    • The most important options
  • Miscellaneous tips
    • Line deletions
    • Switching cases
    • Spell checking in vi
    • Additional search and replace
    • Removing blank lines
    • Writing from buffers
  • Further reading
• About the Author
• About this document