A Unix Cook-Booklet

Pekka Janhunen,

1. Finding information

• 1.1 Moving around and listing files (cd,ls)
• 1.2 Locating files by name
• 1.3 Looking inside files
• 1.4 The man-pages
• 1.5 Which command is executed

2. Manipulating files

• 2.1 Putting files in directories
• 2.2 Symbolic links
• 2.3 Tarfiles and gzipped files
• 2.4 Backups and such
• 2.5 Remote copying
• 2.6 File systems
• 2.7 Permissions and ownership

3. Processing files

• 3.1 Textual processing (awk, sed, tr)

4. Using shells

• 4.1 Bourne-type shells
• 4.2 C-shell
• 4.3 Redirection
• 4.4 Job control in tcsh and bash

5. Publishing in the World Wide Web