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Introduction to Unix
- Introduction & Overview (Intended Audience, Notation, and Software Availability)
- Accessing Unix (SSH Clients, File Transfers, Logging On and Logging Out, Using the Keyboard, and Using the X Windows System)
- Learning to Use Unix and Consulting Assistance (the help, man, and news commands; InfoExplorer; Message of the Day; VT ARC Documentation and Consulting)
- Editing Files (Using the "vi" Editor)
- Working with Files (Looking at file contents; copying, erasing, renaming, and printing files; introduction to redirection, pipes, and filters)
- Working with Directories (The Unix file system; pwd, cd, mkdir, rmdir, and mv commands; file and directory access permissions; group ownership, and locating files or text within files)
- Working in the Shell Environment (Shell characteristics, shell and environmental variables, alias and history commands, shell scripts)
- Working with Unix Programming Tools (Unix design philosophy, compiling C and Fortran programs, background processing, Unix development tools -- make and ar)
- Individual User Security Concerns (Backups, passwords, and file access permissions)
- Command Index (Table of Equivalent commands on IBM VM/CMS, DEC VAX/VMS, PC-DOS, and Unix)
- References (General Unix, vi, and System Administration)