Linux Tutorial for Beginners

A beginners guide to the Unix and Linux operating system. Seven simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX / Linux commands.

Introduction to the UNIX/Linux Operating System

What is UNIX/Linux?

Files and processes

The Directory Structure

Starting an Linux terminal

Tutorial One

Listing files and directories

Making Directories

Changing to a different Directory

The directories . and ..

Pathnames

More about home directories and pathnames

Tutorial Two

Copying Files

Moving Files

Removing Files and directories

Displaying the contents of a file on the screen

Searching the contents of a file

Tutorial Three

Redirection

Redirecting the Output

Redirecting the Input

Pipes

Tutorial Four

Wildcards

Filename Conventions

Getting Help

Tutorial Five

File system security (access rights)

Changing access rights

Processes and Jobs

Listing suspended and background processes

Killing a process

Tutorial Six

Other Useful Linux commands: quota, yppasswd, df, du, gzip, zcat, tar, file, diff, find, ssh, and scp.

Tutorial Seven

Compiling Linux software packages

Download source code

Extracting source code

Configuring and creating the Makefile

Building the package

Running the software

Stripping unnecessary code

Writing your own code

Submit your work

Useful Links

For a more detailed tutorial see Unix Intro.

This tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

This tutorial is a modified version of "UNIX Tutorial for Beginners"written by Michael Stonebank.