Best UNIX/LINUX Tutorial for All Beginners

Introduction to the UNIX/LINUX Operating System

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

Chapter One

• Listing files and directories
• Making Directories
• Changing to a different Directory
• The directories . and ..
• Pathnames
• More about home directories and path names

Chapter Two

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

Chapter Three

• Redirection
• Redirecting the Output
• Redirecting the Input
• Pipes

Chapter Four

• Wildcard
• Filename Conventions
• Getting Help

Chapter Five

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

Chapter Six

• Other Useful UNIX commands

Chapter 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

Chapter Eight

• UNIX variables
• Environment variables
• Shell variables
• Using and setting variables

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