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This section assumes that you are new to UNIX, and will go
over some of the basic commands that are necessary to get
started in a UNIX environment. It is important that you are
able to navigate the UNIX file
system, which is heirarchical and organized into
directories. To the user, it looks similar to the DOS file
system that most people are more familiar with, even though
it is very different internally. Some basic
commands are:
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cd [directory]
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changes directory
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mkdir [directory]
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makes a directory
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rmdir [directory]
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removes an empty directory
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pwd
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prints the path of the directory you are in
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ls
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lists the files in your current directory
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mv [file1] [file2]
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moves (or renames) file1 to file2; file1 and file2 can be
absolute paths or simply filenames
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cp [file1] [file2]
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copies file1 to file2; works in the same manner as mv
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cat [file]
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displays the contents of a file
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more [file]
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displays the contents of a file one page at a time. Press
the space bar to proceed one page, or the enter key to move
one line ahead. You can also do text searches in more by
typing '/' and the search string. See the man pages, or
type 'h' at the more prompt for details.
When referencing a file or directory, you can use either an
absolute or a relative path. An absolute path starts from the
root directory (the base of the file system) and begins with
'/', and a relative path specifies directories or files
starting from the directory that you are currently in. For
example, /usr/local/doc/file is an absolute path. If you
were already in the directory /usr/local, then you could
specify the same file as doc/file. Similarly, from
/usr/local, you could cd to either /usr/local/doc or just doc
and get the same results.
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