Unix Introduction

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UNIX Introduction

- Definition of operating system

- UNIX background

Developed at Bell Labs in 1969
Three advantages over other systems of time
Multiuser
Interactive
Allowed sharing of data and programs
Two popular current versions
BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution)
SVR4 (UNIX System V Release 4)

Minimum knowledge to use UNIX

Log in
login: username
password: password
Directory system
Editor(s)
Emacs
Vi
Mail
Commands
-ls (list files) ls
ls -l
ls -a
-cd (change directory) cd <dirdesig>
cd ..
cd
-cp (copy file) cp <srcfile> <destfile>
-rm (remove file) rm <filename>
-rmdir (remove directory) rmdir <dirname>
-mv (move file) mv <srcfile> <destfile>
 

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