Brief Summary
This course is a super chill intro to Unix for total newbies. In just under an hour, you’ll learn how to use a Unix terminal and get to know some key terms and commands. Perfect for anyone looking to dive into the world of Unix!
Key Points
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Introduction to Unix and its commands
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Understanding Unix Kernel, Shell, and Terminal
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Exploring different flavors of Unix like Ubuntu and Red Hat
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Using a free web-based Unix terminal
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Basic Unix skills for further development
Learning Outcomes
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Define what Unix is and its importance.
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Identify different types or flavors of Unix.
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Familiarize yourself with the basic parts of Unix like the Kernel and Shell.
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Use a Unix terminal to execute basic commands.
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Gain foundational Unix skills for future learning.
About This Course
Absolute beginners to Unix - Learn the basic Unix Commands
This is a very basic absolute beginners introductory course to Unix.
The course introduces you to how to use a Unix terminal and commands .
You will be exposed to terminologies like Unix Kernel, Unix Shell and Terminal.
The only material you will need for this course is a modern web browser and the course is less than one hour long.
The course is structured in the following way:
Introduction to Unix
Flavours of Unix
Parts of Unix
The Kernel
The Shell
Unix Terminal
Basic Unix Commands
Summary
Unix is an operating system that is known for multi user and multitasking.
It was created in the 1960's by group of engineers who worked at AT&T Bell research labs.
UNIX has become kind of open source with different companies ,organisations and even individuals creating their own versions from the open source versions. Although there are different flavors of Unix they also
share common similarities hence knowing one flavor of Unix makes it easy to learn or pick up another variant of the operating system fairy quickly.
Some of the popular variants of Unix operating system available include Solaris, Red Hat, Fedora ,Ubuntu,and Linux. There are several more this is just a brief mention of the varieties available. some of these variants can be installed both on servers and desktops or workstations.
Unix operations are usually done using UNIX commands through a Unix terminal ,however there are some variants of Unix that has a friendly graphical user interface (GUI) like Microsoft windows operating system
In this course we will be using a free web based Unix terminal to perform some very basic Unix commands to get you acquainted with Unix Operating system.
Taking this course will give you a basic Unix skill that you can develop further.
Welcome to the course .
Ajay S.
ITs a good tutorial for beginners