Unix basics
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General
- What is Unix?
- About Linux
- What is AIX?
- In Unix, what is the shell?
- What is the X Window System?
- In Unix, how do I log into and out of my account?
- How do I use the vi text editor?
- In Unix, what is a disk quota?
- In Unix, what is a daemon?
- In Unix, what is a group?
Commands
- Introduction to Unix commands
- From a Unix account, how do I connect to another shared computer?
- In Unix, how do I use SCP to securely transfer files between two computers?
- In Unix, how do I change my password?
- In Unix, how do I print files and list or remove print jobs?
- In Unix, what is tar, and how do I use it?
- In Unix, how do I use the sort command?
- Unix job control command list
- What is grep, and how do I use it?
- What is awk, and how do I use it?
- In Unix, what is Ispell and how do I use it to spell-check files?
- In Unix, how can I reissue a long command without retyping it?
- In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?
System information
- In Unix, how can I display information about the operating system?
- Where can I find information about Unix workstation security?
- At IU, how do I configure my Unix workstation's DNS settings?
- In Unix, how do I look up IP addresses?
- In Unix, what is my path, and how do I set or modify it?
- In Unix, how can I find the current values of all my environment variables and functions?
- In Unix, how can I display statistics on free disk space?
- In Unix, how do I check the CPU usage of a job?
- In Unix, what do the output fields of the ps command mean?
- In Unix, how can I check whether a networked computer has crashed?
Files and the file system
- In Unix, how can I find the correct path to an executable file?
- In Unix, what are some common dot files?
- In Unix, how do I use filename completion?
- In Unix, what is a symbolic link, and how do I create one?
- In Unix, what is a hard link?
- In Unix, how can I display the first few lines of a file?
- In Unix, how can I display the last lines of a file?
- In Unix, how can I split large files into a number of smaller files?
- In Unix, what is a Makefile?
- What do some common Unix file extensions mean?
Linux
- IU's software agreement with Red Hat
- What is Ubuntu Linux, and how can I get it?
- In Linux, what is RPM, and how do I use it to install software?
- In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, how do I authenticate to ADS.IU.EDU using Kerberos?
- For Linux using Mozilla Thunderbird, how do I read my IU mail using IMAP?
Help
- At IU, how do I get support for Linux or Unix?
- At IU, how do I recover files or email deleted from UITS central systems?
- For Unix, where can I find online tutorials?
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Last modified on February 24, 2012.
Last modified on February 24, 2012.
