Computer Science at Swarthmore College

unix help

The following pages were created to help you learn to use Unix. If you want help with a class, try going to a clinic or asking your professor.

using the command line the filesystem, absolute and relative paths printing electronic mail filtering spam editors file sharing with setfacl browsing the internet finding a file with locate setting file permissions with chmod customizing your shell command help with man (manual) pages disk usage cpu usage project etiquette window managers common unix directories using ssh and scp the tar command

If the internet just doesn't quite do it for you, ask a friendly neighbor or professor or friend or sysadmin etc. etc. etc. Just make sure they're friendly and not too busy. (: