Guide to Unix/Commands

The Unix command line is often considered difficult to learn. This book aims to help beginners by introducing various commands in lucid and simple language. Unlike most command references, this book is designed to be a self-study guide.

Contents

Section	Contents
Summary
Getting Help	man info apropos whatis makewhatis
File System Utilities	ls mkdir cd pwd chroot cp mv rm touch df link ln unlink chown chmod mount
Finding Files	find whereis which locate
File Viewing	cat more less od head tail
File Editing	pico nano zile vi joe emacs
File Compression	gzip gunzip zcat gzcat tar pax bzip2 zip compress
File Analysing	file wc cksum stat
Multiuser Commands	who finger su
Self Information	whoami groups id tty
System Information	uptime uname dmesg free vmstat top df hostname
Networking	ifconfig ifdown ifup
Process Management	nohup ps kill pgrep pidof killall
Devices	fuser lsof fstat
Kernel Commands	lsmod modprobe sysctl
Compress Commands	tar bunzip2
Miscellaneous	sync echo cal date time from mail clear PS1