Unix Overview
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Unix Overview

Peter Chapin

Vermont State University
 Computer Information Systems Department

Copyright © 2023 Peter Chapin

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Table of Contents

1. Basic Unix Concepts
Introduction
Terminals, Hosts, and All That
Logging In
Special Characters
The File System
Process Tree
Users and Groups
File Permissions
The Superuser
Set-UID and Set-GID Programs
2. Basic Unix Commands
Online Documentation. The Unix Manual
A Tour of the File System
Conventions
File Manipulation
Directory Manipulation
Security
Communicating with Users
Programming
Manipulating Text Files
3. The Bourne Shell
Command Line vs Shell Scripts
Shell and Environment Variables
Quoting
Wildcards
I/O Redirection
Multiple Commands, Sub-commands and Background Commands
Control Flow
Arithmetic
Shell Functions
Examples

List of Tables

1.1. Special Control Characters
1.2. Directory Permissions
2.1. Unix Manual Sections
3.1. Predefined Shell Variables
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