UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

Please complete the following seven tutorial lessons. Tutorials one and two introduce you to the bare minimum of commands require to manage your Unix account. Make sure you master that knowledge before moving on to tutorials three through seven.

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

Tutorial Three

Redirection
Redirecting the Output
Redirecting the Input
Pipes

Tutorial Four

Wildcards
Filename Conventions
Getting Help

Tutorial Five

File system security (access rights)
Changing access rights
Processes and Jobs
Listing suspended and background processes
Killing a process

Tutorial Six

Other Useful UNIX commands

Tutorial Seven

UNIX variables
Environment variables
Shell variables
Using and setting variables

Acknowledgement. This tutorial has been developed by Michael Stonebank and slightly modified by Mirela Damian. The original version is available here.