Introduction to Unix

Introduction to Unix Spring 2008

CSC 210 - Introduction to Unix course material and class schedule

Jan 23, 2008 / Mar 19

Lecture #1 - Introduction to UNIX and the shell tool

What is Unix?
- What is an operating system?
Brief history of Unix
Introduction to a networked environment
What is a shell and what does it do.
Command structure
man pages(-k option, apropos, whatis)
Other sources of help (program help, info documents, /usr/doc)
Notes

Jan 28, 2008, Mar 19

Lecture #2 - Unix identification commands and more on the shell

The whoami command

The who am i command

The hostname command

More on the ls command

Permission strings and file ownership
Changing file and directory permissions with chmod
Changing file and directory ownership and groups with chgrp and chown
Listing groups that you are a member of with the groups command
The umask command

The touch command

Notes

Feb 5, 2008, Apr 9

Lecture #6 - Creating, moving, renaming, and deleting files and directories.

The mkdir command
The cp command
The wildcard expression
The mv command
- moving and renaming files
The rm command
- the -i, -r, -f flags
The rmdir command

Feb 7, 2008, Apr 11

Lecture #7 - Looking into files. More creating, moving, renaming and deleting files.

The more and less commands

Notes

Feb 12, 2008, Apr 16

Lecture #8 - filters, piping, and redirections.

the sort command

the grep command

file redirection and piping

concanating files

Notes

Feb 14, 2008, Apr 18

Lecture #9 - Remote Connections.

connecting to remote sites with rlogin

connecting to remote sites with telnet

connecting to remote sites with ssh

remote X connections

Notes

Feb 19, 2008, Apr 23

Lecture #10 - File transfers.

transferring files with ftp

setting the transfer mode
get, mget, put, mput

transferring files with sftp

transferring files with scp

transferring files with wget

Notes

Feb 21, 2008, Apr 25

Lecture #11 - Using the vi editor.

Editor modes:

command mode.

navigation
Deleting text (characters & lines)
Copy & Paste
EX commands

insert mode.

Notes

Mar 5, 2008, Apr 30

Lecture #12 - Getting the most out of your C shell

introduction to command shells

what shells are available, how do they differ from each other?
how to identify the shell you are using
selecting a new shell
the shell environment
the .cshrc and .login files

the history variable

repeating a command with the history variable

the !! command

aliases

setting a custom prompt

Notes

Mar 7, 2008, May 2

Lecture #13 Unix Printing, Compressing files, tar archives and find.

printing files with lpr

checking the printer que with lpq

removing print jobs from the printer que with lprm

Compressing files with tar, gzip and compress

using the find command to search for information and files

Notes

Mar 12, 2008 / May ?

Lecture #14 - Job control.

stopping, suspending a job

restarting a job

running a job in the foreground

running a job in the background

monitoring and listing current jobs

the ps command
the top command

killing jobs with the kill command

Notes

Mar 8, 2008

Lecture #15 Basic shell scripting/programming.

conditional expressions

looping expressions

Notes

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