Introducing UNIX

Introducing UNIX

Pre-requisites
 Introducing UNIX

What is UNIX?
 Introducing UNIX

What is UNIX?
Type of UNIX
 Introducing UNIX

What is UNIX?
Type of UNIX
UNIX Operating System
 Introducing UNIX

What is UNIX?
Type of UNIX
UNIX Operating System

Kernel
 Introducing UNIX

What is UNIX?
Type of UNIX
UNIX Operating System

Kernel Shell
 Introducing UNIX

What is UNIX?
Type of UNIX
UNIX Operating System

Kernel Shell Program

History of UNIX
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs

1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing

 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs
1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing
1973 : Rewritten in C by Dennis Ritchie
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ohsanna and
others started at Bell Labs
1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing
1973 : Rewritten in C by Dennis Ritchie
1975 : Leaves Bell Labs, first version of BSD (1.x) released
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs
1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing
1973 : Rewritten in C by Dennis Ritchie
1975 : Leaves Bell Labs, first version of BSD (1.x) released
1983 : GNU project started by Richard Stallman
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs
1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing
1973 : Rewritten in C by Dennis Ritchie
1975 : Leaves Bell Labs, first version of BSD (1.x) released
1983 : GNU project started by Richard Stallman
1985 : FSF (Free Software Foundation) started by Richard Stallman
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs
1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing
1973 : Rewritten in C by Dennis Ritchie
1975 : Leaves Bell Labs, first version of BSD (1.x) released
1983 : GNU project started by Richard Stallman
1985 : FSF (Free Software Foundation) started by Richard Stallman
1989 : The GPL (GNU Public License) written by Richard Stallman
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs
1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing
1973 : Rewritten in C by Dennis Ritchie
1975 : Leaves Bell Labs, first version of BSD (1.x) released
1983 : GNU project started by Richard Stallman
1985 : FSF (Free Software Foundation) started by Richard Stallman
1989 : The GPL (GNU Public License) written by Richard Stallman
1991 : Linus Torvalds created first public Linux kernel
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs
1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing
1973 : Rewritten in C by Dennis Ritchie
1975 : Leaves Bell Labs, first version of BSD (1.x) released
1983 : GNU project started by Richard Stallman
1985 : FSF (Free Software Foundation) started by Richard Stallman
1989 : The GPL (GNU Public License) written by Richard Stallman
1991 : Linus Torvalds created first public Linux kernel
1992 : A complete operating system GNU Linux formed
 History of UNIX
1969 : Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mcllroy, Joe Ossanna and
others started at Bell Labs
1971 : First implementation done, assembler PDP-11/20, text processing
1973 : Rewritten in C by Dennis Ritchie
1975 : Leaves Bell Labs, first version of BSD (1.x) released
1983 : GNU project started by Richard Stallman
1985 : FSF (Free Software Foundation) started by Richard Stallman
1989 : The GPL (GNU Public License) written by Richard Stallman
1991 : Linus Torvalds created first public Linux kernel
1992 : A complete operating system GNU Linux formed
1994 : First RedHat released
UNIX Philosophy
 UNIX Philosophy

Simplicity
 UNIX Philosophy

Simplicity

Re-usability
 UNIX Philosophy

Simplicity

Re-usability

Portability
GUI vs CLI
 GUI vs CLI

CLI - Command Line Interface

 GUI vs CLI

CLI - Command Line Interface

GUI - Graphical User Interface

Executing UNIX
Commands
 Executing UNIX
Commands

Let’s login
 Executing UNIX
Commands

Let’s login
Shell Prompt
 Executing UNIX
Commands

Let’s login
Shell Prompt
UNIX Command Syntax
$ command [options] [arguments]
Summary
 Summary

Brief Introduction
 Summary

Brief Introduction
History of UNIX
 Summary

Brief Introduction
History of UNIX
UNIX Philosophy
 Summary

Brief Introduction
History of UNIX
UNIX Philosophy
GUI vs CLI
 Summary

Brief Introduction
History of UNIX
UNIX Philosophy
GUI vs CLI
Executing UNIX Commands
 Exercise

Login to any UNIX system and check what’s available on the

screen after login.
 Exercise

Login to any UNIX system and check what’s available on the

screen after login.

Try a basic ‘ls’ command in the terminal