Description: Introduction to the UNIX operating system. Eight simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX.
Keywords: Unix Tutorial, Unix Guide, Beginners guide to Unix, Linux Tutorial, Linux Commands

# UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

### Typographical Conventions

### Introduction to The UNIX operating system

### 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

### Downloads

This tutorial is available for download in the following formats -

- Unix tar.gz file
- Windows zip file

### UNIX Help for Users

- For more help with UNIX, try this guide from the University of Edinburgh

### UNIX Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

- These seven articles contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions often seen in comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shell.

### History of UNIX

- UNIX was originally developed at Bell Laboratories as a private research project by a small group of people. Read all about the history of its creation.

M.Stonebank@surrey.ac.uk, 19 October 2001

This tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons License.