Guide to Unix/Commands

Guide to Unix/Commands
The Unix command line is often considered difficult to learn. This book aims to help beginners by introducing various commands in lucid and simple language. Unlike most command references, this book is designed to be a self-study guide.

Contents
Section Summary Getting Help File System Utilities Finding Files File Viewing File Editing File Compression File Analysing man info apropos whatis makewhatis ls mkdir cd pwd chroot cp mv rm touch df link ln unlink chown chmod mount find whereis which locate cat more less od head tail pico nano zile vi joe emacs gzip gunzip zcat gzcat tar pax bzip2 zip compress file wc cksum stat Contents

Multiuser Commands who finger su Self Information System Information Networking whoami groups id tty uptime uname dmesg free vmstat top df hostname ifconf ifdown ifup

Process Management nohup ps kill pgrep pidof killall Devices Kernel Commands fuser lsof fstat lsmod modprobe sysctl

Compress Commands tar bunzip2 Miscellaneous sync echo cal date time from mail clear PS1

Article Sources and Contributors

Article Sources and Contributors

Guide to Unix/Commands Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?oldid=2240862 Contributors: A thing, Adrignola, Arky, CFeyecare, Codeman, DavidCary, Davidbspalding, Djamund, Eibwen, Fractal3, Fudz, Herbythyme, Hyad, Imran, Jfmantis, Jomegat, Kernigh, Krischik, Perl, Reisio, RrsunN, Siddharthc, Uncle G, 22 anonymous edits

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