Unix Programming

III B.TECH I SEM

R16

UNIT –I
Introduction to Unix
by
K. Siva Kumar
UNIT-I Syllabus
 Brief History
 What is Unix
 Unix Components
 Using Unix
 Commands in Unix
 Some Basic Commands
 Command Substitution
 Giving Multiple Commands
 Brief History
 Bell Laboratory’s Contribution
Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing
System),1965
UNICS(Uniplexed Information and Computing
System),1969
System V,1983
 UCB’s Contribution
BSD Unix, Spring of 1973
 What is Unix

UNIX is
A Multi tasking operating system
A Multi User Operating System
Highly Portable
Provides security at Various levels
Uses Text-based Terminal
 Unix Components
It has 3 major components
 The Kernel
 The Shell
 The File System
 Using Unix
 The Log Process
 The Shell Prompt
$
%
#
 Commands in Unix
 Type of Unix Commands
External Commands-cat, ls
Internal Commands- echo, cd, mkdir
 Some Basic Commands
 echo
 tput
 tty
 who
 uname
 date
 cal
 calendar
 passwd
 lock
 banner
 cat
 bc
 spell and ispell
 Command Substitution
 In Unix, it is possible to run a command within
a command
 Example
1) $echo Today the date is ‘date’
Today the date is Fri Jul 6 9:40:00 IST 2018
2) In Korn shell,
$echo Today the date is $(date)
Today the date is Fri Jul 6 9:40:00 IST 2018
 Giving Multiple Commands
 One of the ways of giving multiple commands
is to use a semicolon(;) between successive
commands
 Example:
$echo “Giving Multiple commands”; date;who
 They are executed independently one after the
other ,from left to right as they appear in the
command line.