Bootcamp Unix basics

This page is a work-in-progress draft.

Goal

To teach the student the Unix basics.

Why?

The Unix operating system has been the backbone for many modern operating systems.

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What will be taught?

Unix filesystem

• Basic navigation (cd ls)
• Symbolic links (ln -nfs)
• About mtimes (touch)

Bash shell features

• Piping (|)
• Redirection (>)
• Command sequences (&& ||)
• Background jobs (& disown)

Unix process tree

• What is a process?
• Browsing processes (top htop)
• Killing processes and kill signals (kill killall)

Unix permissions

• How to read unix permissions (eg, -rwxrw-r--)
• About Unix users & groups (whoami w)
• Octal permission numbers (eg, 0755)