The goals of this note are to enable students to log in to
their UNIX accounts from any type of computer and have a basic understanding of
the commands and utilities. Topics covered includes: Unix OS Introduction, Unix
Editors, Unix Files and Directories, Unix Directories, Unix Number Sytstems,
chmod command, Unix Wildcards, Unix Processes, Unix Redirection, Unix shell
programming, Additional Commands, Unix Makefiles, unix Advanced Commands, Unix
Command breifly, The Makefile.
UNIX is a multi-user
operating system; in other words it allows more than one user to have
access to a computer at the same time. The users share the computer’s
various resources amongst them. This PDF covers the following topics
related to Unix : Introduction, Directory Structure/Hierarchy, First
Commands, Wildcards and a useful feature, Copying and Moving Files, More
about more, cat, and piping, Shells, Text editors.
Author(s): Alan Reed, Aslam Ghumra, Chris Bayliss,
and Jenny Harrison, University of Birmingham