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A brief guide to using UNIX on UCS computers at Florida State University.

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Introduction Logging In and Out Passwords Groups On-line Help Man Pages Electronic Mail (elm) Unix Commands Summary Special Characters Input and Output Redirection; Pipes Redirecting Standard Input, Output, and Error Pipes File and Directory Paths Home Directories Changing the Current Directory File and Directory Names Wildcard Characters in File Lists Managing Files & Directories Creating and Deleting Directories Listing a Directory File & Directories Permissions Displaying the Contents of Files Copying and Moving Files Concatenating and Appending Files Deleting Files Searching Files Finding Files Archiving Files Compressing Files Network File Transfer Unix Shells Changing the Shell Recalling Commands Korn Shell Command History C Shell Command History Tailoring the Environment The Bourne Shell and Korn Shell .profile Files C Shell .login and .cshrc Files

Conventions

This guide contains many examples of commands and interactive sessions. The following typographic conventions are used:

courier: Text that represents potential computer input or output, including commands, file names, and examples of interactive sessions. For example, ls is an example of a Unix command.
courier italic: Computer input or output for which a substitution is to be made. For example, command can be replaced with any Unix command.
courier bold: User input in examples of interactive sessions.
[bracketed]: Optional command arguments indicated by surrounding brackets.
Prompts: % C shell prompt.; $ Bourne or Korn shell prompt.