******* UNIX TUTORIAL - by Peter Conrad Cumminsky *******

****** Lesson 2: Some Shell Commands ******

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***** Who is on the System? *****

    %who [Enter]

    %id [Enter] (Tells you who you are!)

***** What time is it? *****

    %date [Enter]

***** How Do You Spell "word"? *****

    %look word [Enter]

***** Making Corrections at the Shell Prompt *****

    [Ctrl]-[H] or [Backspace]

***** How Do I Stop a Scrolling Display? *****

    [Ctrl]-[S] (stop scrolling)
    [Spacebar] (resume scrolling)

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****** Getting Help and Information ******

Here are some useful sources of help.

    %apropos keyword [Enter]
	(List manpages containing "keyword".)

    %man command [Enter]
	(Display the manpage for "command". The major source of 
	documentation for Unix systems.)
        (Press [Spacebar] to scroll through text)
	([Ctrl]-[B] to go back a page)
	([Ctrl]-[F] to go forward a page)
	(q or [Ctrl]-[C] to quit.)

    %which command [Enter]
	(Tells you where in the path the command is, if it exists.)

    %locate text [Enter]
	(All the locations where the string text is found regardles 
	of path. Useful for finding files or commands if you don't know 
	where they are.)

    %whatis command [Enter]
	(Tells you what the command does and its man page. Typing
	whatis * will tell you about all the commands in the current
	directory.

    %whereis text [Enter]
	(Finds the file text, giving its full path.)

You might want to try using whatis on some common useful commands like
cat, more, grep, mv, find, tar, chmod, chown, date, and script. more lets
you read a page at a time as it does in DOS, e.g., ls -l | more or more
filename. The * works as a wildcard--e.g., ls w* will show you files
beginning with w.

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****** Other Useful Commands ******

    %df [Enter]
	(Shows file space and mounted systems.)

    %ps aux [Enter]
	(Shows processes running. ps ax is a narrower form.)

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***** Combining Shell Commands *****

    %ls filename | lpr [Enter]
	(Pipes the output of the ls command to the printer.)

    $spell filename > new_filename; lpr new_filename & [Enter]
	(Redirects the output of the spell command to new_filename and then 
	prints new_filename on the printer all in the background.)

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