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Introduction to Unix

Introduction to UNIX

The goals of this course are to enable you to:

Login to your UNIX account from any type of computer.
Find online help.
Use the basic UNIX commands to create files and directories.
Edit and print files.
Understand the UNIX tools philosophy.

Example commands are shown like this. Most commands are shown with links to their full man pages (ls)
Output from commands is shown like this
Optional items are shown in brackets, [ like this ]

Some descriptions in these notes have more detail available, and are denoted like this:

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity.

- Dennis Ritchie

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Dilbert newsletter 3.0, 1994
- Scott Adams

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