Summary

In this section we introduced some of the basic UNIX commands to begin familiarizing ourselves with the surroundings.

We first learned how to log in by supplying our username and password. We then familiarized ourselves with our surroundings - reading the message of the day, learning what our prompt looked like; and checking the news.

We then learned some basic commands for finding out where we were located in the UNIX file system with the pwd command , moving around in the file system with the cd command ("change directory"), and viewing the contents of some of the directories with the ls command ("list").

We also looked at who else was on the system with the who command, and what other processes were running on the system with the process statistics command, ps.

In the next section you will learn more about your environment, and how to begin taking control of the environment, and making it function the way you would like it to function.