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Introducing UNIX and Linux


Getting started

Overview
Using UNIX
      Usernames
      Logging in
Logging out
Commands
      Typing in commands
      Commands and options
Communication with other users
      Email
      Other communication facilities
Files
      The editor Vi
            Vi commands (command mode)
            Vi commands (colon mode)
      Other editors
Input and output
      Scripts
      Here-documents
      Pipes
      Making copies of input and output
      Pagers
Emergencies
Getting help
Summary
Exercises

Summary

The following commands were introduced in this chapter

cat concatenate and print files to standard output
date display current time and date
echo write arguments to standard output
ed basic text editor
ex text editor (see Vi)
logname display your login user name
ls list files (directory contents)
mailx process electronic mail messages
man display manual pages
mesg allow or deny messages on your terminal
more 'pager'
rm remove a file
sh the shell
talk talk to another user
tee duplicate standard input
tty display the terminal name
uname display the system name
vi full-screen text editor
who list who is using the system
write write a message on another user's terminal

Copyright © 2002 Mike Joy, Stephen Jarvis and Michael Luck