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Newbie's Linux manual

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Contents at a glance

• Introduction
• Logging-in and creating a user account (updated: 21st Feb. '02)
• Virtual terminals and multiple X sessions
• Navigation
• Listing directories (updated: 8th Feb. '02)
• File management
• Inodes and hard links (new: 8th Feb. '02)
• Viewing text files
• The command history and other shell tricks
• Tarballs, gzips, bzip2s, and zips (updated: 6th Feb. '02)
• Command-line help
• Finding files
• System information
• Process management
• Job control
• Environment variables (updated: 20th Feb. '02)
• The su command
• Vi survival guide
• Emacs: basic editing
• Customising your shell
• Accessing block devices
• Wildcards
• Installing software (updated: 6th Feb. '02)
• Access rights (updated: 8th Feb. '02)
• Date and time
• Upgrading your kernel (updated: 3rd Feb. '02)
• How do I create, compile, and run a C program? (updated: 21st Feb. '02)
• How do I create, and run a Perl script?
• Further Help
• Things still to cover

Last updated: 21st February, 2002

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