Caveat Lector: These are some notes for a basic course on Unix which I co-taught many years ago at the University of Calgary. I keep them online in the hope that they may be useful to someone. However, they are not maintained. They may contain information specific to one (historic) network, which will not apply universally. Links may be broken.

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Computer Science 001

Introduction to Unix

Instructors:

Dominik Royko, Ron Dutton

Assumptions:

Awareness of DOS
General Knowledge of what an operating system is

Goals:

Preparation for using Unix at a beginner to intermediate level.
General familiarity with many aspects of using Unix
Learn methods to obtain more detailed information on your own

Day One:

Introduction to Unix for beginners (approx. 1 hr)

The Unix file system
Multi-user, Multitasking, processes
Logging into your commuter science account
The shell
The online Manual Pages

Intro
sections

Unix basic commands

Introduction to Unix , intermediate (approx. 2 hrs)

General setup of computer science undergraduate machines
The Xterms
Architectures (SunOs, Solaris, SGI, Linux)

uname -a
compilation issues
File locations and your $PATH
Command differences (flags etc.)
Resource files (.cshrc, .login, .logout, .rhosts)
aliases
stty, set , limits
Available shells

Intermediate commands

Day Two:

Shell scripting using csh as an example ( approx. 30 to 45 minutes)

Example shell script

Setting variables
Reading command line arguments
Variables as counters
While loop
Foreach loop
if then else
Switch statement

Getting started with emacs/ everything you need to know about vi (approx. 30 to 45 minutes)

How to get out of it

Emacs

Starting, Saving and Stopping
The "help" command
The tutorial
The reference card
What's a buffer

Changing/split windows
killing

Cutting and pasting and the kill ring
Moving the cursor
Searching
Query - replace
Goto line
Keyboard Macros
Major Modes
The .emacs file

Makefiles and compiling (approx. 30 )

Example Makfile and discussion of it
Some useful compiler/link-edit options

-c -S -o -l -I -L

What's a library and how to link it in to my program
What's a link-editor and do I really care

The World Wide Web (approx. 30 minutes)

Setting up your page

www directory
index.html
Your URL
permissions, permissions, permissions

Available Browsers
CGI
The department pages

course pages
help pages

Questions and Answers