Unix Commands
(basic & advanced)
Presenters
Overview
Brief Intro
Commands everyone should know
Q&A session
Follow-up in Labs
ls
cd
cp
mv
rm
mkdir
rmdir
cat
passwd
more
grep
| (shift-\)
gz
tar
touch
man
quota
lp
lpq
lprm
chmod
ssh
alias
hostname
finger
who
find
- list the contents of the directory
- change the current directory
- copy a file
- move a file
- remove a file (permanently)
- make a directory
- remove an empty directory
- concatenate one or more files
- change your password
- display standard output one page at a time
- search a file for a pattern
- (pipe) direct the output of one command as the input to another
- gzip (compress) a file
- tape archive a group of files into a single file (like pkzip)
- update the last access time of a file (or create and empty one)
- manual pages
- user disk quota report
- submit print jobs
- list of print jobs in the queue
- remove a submitted print job
- change the modification permissions of a file
- secure shell (used in place of telnet, rlogin, and rsh)
- pseudonym utility for a command or list of commands
- name of current host
- display information about a user
- list users logged onto current host
- search for a file or group of files from a pattern
Unix Commands
(going further)
links to Emacs short reference guides/sheets:
many references to refcard.ps, that comes with the Emacs distribution in the etc/ directory;
what look like html versions of this for GNU Emacs Version 19 (not version 20, note) can be
found at:
http://www.geek-girl.com/emacs/refcard.html
http://www.utoledo.edu/computer-services-faqs/unix/emacs-ref.html
http://www.jhu.edu/~hac/hcic/handouts/Editors/emacs.html
links to Emacs tutorials and FAQs:
http://yoda.cis.temple.edu:8080/UGAIWWW/help/emacs-tutorial.html
http://www.geek-girl.com/emacs/faq/index.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
Emacs
links to vi short reference guides/sheets:
http://www.jhu.edu/~hac/hcic/handouts/Editors/vi.html
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~egolub/handout.vi.txt
http://web.lwc.edu/staff/stmccaslin/fall2000/cmsc204/shellvi.htm
http://web.lwc.edu/staff/jpeden/basic_vi.html
http://web.lwc.edu/staff/jpeden/basic_vi_frames.html (frames version of above)
links to vi tutorials and FAQs:
http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html
http://ECN.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Documents/VI/
http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/UNIXhelp/vi/index.html
http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html
http://www.msoe.edu/~taylor/4ltrwrd/Vi.html
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~totten/vi/
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/
Unix Commands
(going further)
Vi
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