Description
A beginners guide to the Unix and Linux operating system. Eight simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX / Linux commands. http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
Audience
Undergraduate
Time
~ 3 Hours
Objective
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Tutorial One
- Listing files and directories
- Making Directories
- Changing to a different Directory
- The directories . and ..
- Pathnames
- More about home directories and pathnames
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Tutorial Five
- File system security (access rights)
- Changing access rights
- Processes and Jobs
- Listing suspended and background processes
- Killing a process
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Tutorial Two
- Copying Files
- Moving Files
- Removing Files and directories
- Displaying the contents of a file on the screen
- Searching the contents of a file
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Tutorial Six
- Other Useful UNIX commands
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Tutorial Three
- Redirection
- Redirecting the Output
- Redirecting the Input
- Pipes
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Tutorial Seven
- Compiling UNIX software packages
- Download source code
- Extracting source code
- Configuring and creating the Makefile
- Building the package
- Running the software
- Stripping unnecessary code
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Tutorial Four
- Wildcards
- Filename Conventions
- Getting Help
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Tutorial Eight
- UNIX variables
- Environment variables
- Shell variables
- Using and setting variables
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This excellent tutorial developed by Michael Stonebank, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey, is used annually at the IRIS Undergraduate Internship Orienation for a "work at your own pace" lab session for all students. Depending on prior exposure to Unix, some students get close to finishing within about 2 hours. However, most only get through about #5 with a bit of debriefing at the conclusion . This tutorial is also available as a download to allow students to work off line on their projects (.tar file 352kb).
