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Editor's introductionOne of the best tutorials for UNIX was written in the early 90s by Glenn Chappell, who was at that time a graduate student at the University of Illinois. (He is now a professor at the Unviersity of Alaska, Fairbanks.)For many years, it was hosted on the web at Appalachian State University, but it was recently taken offline. It is still a useful introduction to the basics of using the command line in LINUX. The tutorial assumes you are using the csh shell, so if you are learning in LINUX, you might want to use the tcsh shell, which is a better version of csh. In order to switch your shell to tcsh, type chsh and specify /bin/tcsh when it asks you what shell you want. However, most of the things taught will still work even if you're not using csh or tcsh. Ian Chai | |
Author's IntroductionIn May of 1991, I put together a Unix tutorial for my mother. In the last 3 years it has been passed around the net, and many people have said they benefited from it. Therefore, I have revised it (a bit) to get rid of some things that pertained only to my mother's account and some other things that weren't correct.Both my mother and I have extensive experience with the Apple II, and a number of comments in the tutorial relate Unix features to various features of the Apple. I realize that many of the users of this tutorial probably do not have Apple II experience, but the comments have been left in. Feel free to ignore them. :-) The tutorial is divided into 7 chapters. Chapter 5 is divided into 4 parts, chapter 6 has 3 addenda, and chapter 7 is divided into 2 parts, making 14 parts in all. I assume you are using a reasonably standard version of Unix, and that your shell is the "C-shell" (if you don't know what this means, you probably don't need to worry about it).
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