Physics 329: Unix Notes

• Introduction and motivation
• Files and Directories
  • Absolute and relative pathnames, working directory
  • Home directories
  • "Dot" and "Dot-Dot"
  • Filenames
• Commands Overview
  • General Structure
  • Executables and Paths
  • Control Characters
  • Special Files
  • Shell Aliases
• Basic Commands
  • Getting Help or Information
    • man
  • Communicating with Other Machines
    • rlogin
    • telnet
    • ftp
    • Mail
  • Creating, Manipulating and Viewing Files
    • vi or emacs
    • more
    • lpr
    • cd and pwd
    • ls
    • mkdir
    • cp
    • mv
    • rm
    • chmod
    • rcp
• More on the C-shell
  • Shell Variables
  • Environment Variables
  • Using C-shell Pattern Matching
  • Using the C-shell History and Event Mechanisms
  • Standard Input, Standard Output and Standard Error
  • Input and Output Redirection
  • Pipes
  • Regular expressions and grep
  • Job control