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Old 02-18-2012
I feel lost, how do I start learning UNIX?

I'm in college now and a part of a subject in this semester is learning UNIX, though the teacher failed to explain the basics, I feel, we got straight to the Unix Terminal and started putting in commands without much explanation what they were for. I quickly adapted to the basic ones, but in 5 days, I have a major test, not the finals, but I have to pass it to get to the finals. Basically, we'll be doing those basic commands, also pipes, which I'm admittedly not very good at, and I'm also unsure about the flags. My current 'opinion', so to speak is that flags define the way the command is executed. -f meaning it will be forced etc...

tl;dr - Where do I start learning UNIX? Need those commands explained in details.
 

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INTRO(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  INTRO(1)

NAME
intro -- introduction to general commands (tools and utilities) DESCRIPTION
Section one of the manual contains most of the commands which comprise the BSD user environment. Some of the commands included in section one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands. All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally. Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error. Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using exit codes as defined in sysexits(3), while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1). SEE ALSO
apropos(1), man(1), intro(2), intro(3), sysexits(3), intro(4), intro(5), intro(6), intro(7), security(7), intro(8), intro(9) Tutorials in the UNIX User's Manual Supplementary Documents. HISTORY
The intro manual page appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
October 21, 2001 BSD
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