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introduction to UNIX for web developers

Table of Contents
Day One: Basics
  • What is UNIX
  • What is an Operating System
  • What is the UNIX Kernel
  • What are Shells
  • Utilities
  • Executing Utilities
  • Using Wild Cards
  • Input, Output, and Redirection
  • The "man" Utility
  • UNIX and Webmasters
  • History of UNIX
  • Logging In and Out
  • Resetting Your Password
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    Day Two: Essential Commands
  • The UNIX File System
  • Relative versus Absolute Pathnames
  • The "pwd" Utility
  • The "cd" Utility
  • The "ls" Utility (And Hidden Files)
  • Permissions
  • The Password File
  • The Group File
  • Who Are you and Who else is here?
  • Undersrtanding the Permission Bits
  • The "chmod" Utility
  • The "chown" Utility
  • The "chgrp" Utility
  • Reading a File
  • Creating a File
  • Copying Files
  • Moving or Renaming Files
  • Deleting Files
  • Manipulating Directories
  • Creating Directories
  • Deleting Directories
  • Moving and Renaming Directories
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    Day Three: Advanced Tools
  • Searching
  • The "grep" Utility
  • The "find" Utility
  • The "sort" Utility
  • The "diff" Utility
  • The "comm" Utility
  • The "uniq" Utility
  • The "spell" Utility
  • The "wc" Utility
  • The "cut" Utility
  • The "paste" Utility
  • Time and Date
  • Managing Processes
  • Manipulating your Environment
  • Compression and Archiving
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