Unix / Linux Tutorial for Beginners

Written by Robin on October 20, 2008 Categories: Tutorials Tags: , , , , , , , ,

One of the best Online Tutorial for Unix and Linux i have come across. Interesting Screencaps and Explanations totally made this tutorial an easy one to understand about Unix and Linux . Take a look at the topic it covers .

A beginners guide to the Unix and Linux operating system. Eight simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX / Linux commands.

Topics Covered:

Introduction to the UNIX Operating System

* What is UNIX?
* Files and processes
* The Directory Structure
* Starting an UNIX terminal


Tutorial One

* Listing files and directories
* Making Directories
* Changing to a different Directory
* The directories . and ..
* Pathnames
* More about home directories and pathnames

Tutorial Two

* Copying Files
* Moving Files
* Removing Files and directories
* Displaying the contents of a file on the screen
* Searching the contents of a file

Tutorial Three

* Redirection
* Redirecting the Output
* Redirecting the Input
* Pipes

Tutorial Four

* Wildcards
* Filename Conventions
* Getting Help

Tutorial Five

* File system security (access rights)
* Changing access rights
* Processes and Jobs
* Listing suspended and background processes
* Killing a process

Tutorial Six

* Other Useful UNIX commands

Tutorial Seven

* Compiling UNIX software packages
* Download source code
* Extracting source code
* Configuring and creating the Makefile
* Building the package
* Running the software
* Stripping unnecessary code

Tutorial Eight

* UNIX variables
* Environment variables
* Shell variables
* Using and setting variables

It doesn’t stops with these. The author also suggesting you some books that would be great to read more about unix and linux. And it contains the links to various linux distro’s too.

Even though one gives the complete detail with screenshot and video demonstration it is the user who must take more interest to do hands on practise which will improve his/her linux skills.

Happy Reading …

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