Unix Basics

A few useful commands:

man command	get help "manual pages" on command
more filename	read a text file filename on screen
cd xxxx	change directory to xxxx
pwd	shows present working directory
mkdir directory	makes directory directory
rmdir directory	remove directory directory
cp sfile dfile	copy sfile to dfile (can include directory path)
mv sfile dfile	move sfile to dfile (can include directory path)
rm filename	removes file filename
ls	list files in current directory
ls -la	more complete listing
ftp hopper.coe.neu.edu	start ftp to hopper
put filename	(within ftp) transfers file filename to hopper
get filename	(within ftp) gets file filename from hopper
pico filename	one file editor
xedit filename	another file editor