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Newbie's Linux manual

by Laurence Hunter

Contents at a glance

• Introduction
• Logging-in and creating a user account
• Virtual terminals and multiple X sessions
• Navigation
• Listing directories
• File management
• Viewing text files
• The command history and other shell tricks
• Tarballs, gzips, bzip2s, RPMs, and zips (updated: 17th Jan. '02)
• Command-line help
• Finding files
• System information
• Process management
• Job control
• Environment variables
• The su command
• Vi survival guide
• Emacs: basic editing
• Customising your shell
• Accessing block devices
• Wildcards
• Access rights
• Date and time
• Upgrading your kernel
• How do I create, compile, and run a C program? (updated: 21st Jan. '02)
• How do I create, and run a Perl script?
• Further Help
• Things still to cover

Last updated: 21st January, 2002

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