UNIX/LINUX Tutorial for Beginners

Note: This tutorial, developed by Garrett Dancik, is modified from a version found at http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/, developed by Michael Stonebank, and available under a Creative Commons License.

Typographical Conventions

Introduction to The UNIX/LINUX operating system

Tutorial One

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

Tutorial Two

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

Tutorial Three

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

Tutorial Four

• Wildcards and globbing
• Filename Conventions
• Getting Help
• Shell History

Last Modified: January 2019

This tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons License.