UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am fresh grad and just landed a job as a IC Design CAD Tools System Engineer and my boss asked me to learn Unix(Admin side) as they're using Unix based system. Can anyone pls give me idea how to start? what editor,etc?

well u can use the vi editor. it's something like notepad/wordpad.

there are alot of resources on vi editor. just type vi help or vi tutorial in yahoo search or google n they will return u a whole list.

also there are a whole lot of resources on unix administration as well. try this url: http://wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/sysadm.../sysadm-1.html

then, what my boss mean by learning admin side Unix?

1) What's the admin side Unix and what's the client side Unix?
2) What program shd i use to try, VIM?
3) Any website that i can refer to learn Admin side Unix?

Thanks.

Hi There,

Ii believe your boss must be asking u to pick up administration skills for unix. i have given u the url for System admin in my previous post. Do check it out.

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.