Introduction to Unix - Spring 2009

CIS 2101 - Introduction to Unix course material and class schedule

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
• Homework

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

• The whoami command
• The who am i command
• The hostname command
• The uname command
• The users command
• The who command
• The w command
• The finger command
• The date command
• More on the shell...
  • The env command.
  • Common shell environmental variables
  • setenv, unsetenv
• Notes
• Homework for lecture #2

Lecture #3 - The UNIX hierarchial file system and moving around on the system

• description of the Unix file system
• Comparison with windows
• Files and directories
• The pwd command
• The cd command
• The ls command (-a,l,F,t,r options)
• Absolute and relative paths
• / directory
• The /bin, /dev, /etc, /lib, /lost+found, /mnt, /sys, /tmp, /sbin, /opt, /var, /home, and /usr directories
• Your home directory
• Notes
• Homework for lecture #3

Lecture #4 - More on the Unix file system

• Symbolic links
• Hidden files
• The "." and ".." directories.
• Local versus remote file systems
• The du command
• The df command
• The mount and umount commands
• Notes
• Homework for lecture #4

Lecture #5 - File ownership and permissions

• 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
• Lab/homework for lecture #5

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
• Lab/Homework for lecture #6

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

• The file command
• The which command
• The head command
• The tail command
• The cat command
• The more and less commands
• Notes

• the sort command
• the grep command
• file redirection and piping
• concanating files
• Notes

• connecting to remote sites with rlogin
• connecting to remote sites with telnet
• connecting to remote sites with ssh
• remote X connections
• Notes

• 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

• Editor modes:
  • command mode.
  • navigation
  • Deleting text (characters & lines)
  • Copy & Paste
  • EX commands
  • insert mode.
• Notes

• 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

• 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
• homework for lecture #13

• 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
• homework for lecture #14

• the echo command
• shell variables
• shell arithmetic
• comparison functions
• conditional expressions
• looping expressions
• Notes

last updated: 17 Jan 2008 11:00