UNIX/LINUX Tutorial for Beginners
- Listing files and directories
- Making Directories
- Changing to a different Directory
- The directories . and ..
- Pathnames
- More about home directories and pathnames
- Copying Files
- Moving Files
- Removing Files and directories
- Displaying the contents of a file on the screen
- Searching the contents of a file
- Redirection
- Redirecting the Output
- Redirecting the Input
- Pipes
- Wildcards
- Filename Conventions
- Getting Help
- Text Editting
- Emacs
- Background processes
- Shell Scripting
- Making a Script
- Shell Variables
- Running a Script
- Executable files and changing access rights
- Text Processing
- The awk program
- Advanced Text Processing
- Trigonometric Functions
- The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)
- Making an X-Y plot
- Data Analysis
- GMT Maps
- Plotting Text in GMT
- Using Color Scales
- Plotting Coastlines
- Plotting the Color Scale Bar
- The exp() Function
- Loops in awk
- Plotting the Function
- Map of Plate Boundaries
- Colored Line Segments
- Finding an Euler Pole between Two Plates
- Orthographic Projection Maps
- Making a Map of Earthquakes and Plate Boundaries
- Adjusting a Previous Script for a New Purpose
- Earthquake Database
- The TauP Toolkit
- Travel Time Curves
- Seismic Wave Ray Paths
- UNIX/LINUX Command Summary
- These seven articles contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions
often seen in comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shell.
- UNIX was originally developed at Bell Laboratories as a private research
project by a small group of people. Read all about the history of its creation.
M.Stonebank@surrey.ac.uk, 19 October 2001; Revised brudzimr@muohio.edu, 19th August 2006
