ed
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Can anyone recomend anywhere usefull on the internet to teach me a few basic Unix commands?
Basically I can only connect to my storage space on my uni servers using Telnet at the moment so I need to learn how to manipulate the files once i'm there....
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Sam
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http://www.emba.uvm.edu/CF/basic.html
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ed
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The one thing I'm mainly struggling with is copying remote files onto my computer and vice versa...
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Tim
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Is the server not running ftpd? That'll be your easiest way to transfer files.
If not, then is it solely telnet, or do they have SSH available (surprises me if anyone uses non-Kerberised telnet anymore)? If sshd is running you can use 'scp' (Secure copy).
If you don't have any of the above, try rcp (Remote copy). You should be able to find a Windows rcp client on Google...
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Brett
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Get a shell account..there are lots of free ones about. Have a play 
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Nismo
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ls ................. show directory, in alphabetical order
logout ............. logs off system
mkdir .............. make a directory
rmdir .............. remove directory (rm -r to delete folders with files)
rm ................. remove files
cd ................. change current directory
man (command) ...... shows help on a specific command
talk (user) ........ pages user for chat - (user) is a email address
write (user) ....... write a user on the local system (control-c to end)
pico (filename) .... easy to use text editor to edit files
pine ............... easy to use mailer
more (file) ........ views a file, pausing every screenful
sz ................. send a file (to you) using zmodem
rz ................. recieve a file (to the unix system) using zmodem
telnet (host) ...... connect to another Internet site
ftp (host) ......... connects to a FTP site
archie (filename) .. search the Archie database for a file on a FTP site
irc ................ connect to Internet Relay Chat
lynx ............... a textual World Wide Web browser
gopher ............. a Gopher database browser
tin, trn ........... read Usenet newsgroups
passwd ............. change your password
chfn ............... change your "Real Name" as seen on finger
chsh ............... change the shell you log into
grep ............... search for a string in a file
tail ............... show the last few lines of a file
who ................ shows who is logged into the local system
w .................. shows who is logged on and what they're doing
finger (emailaddr).. shows more information about a user
df ................. shows disk space available on the system
du ................. shows how much disk space is being used up by folders
chmod .............. changes permissions on a file
bc ................. a simple calculator
make ............... compiles source code
gcc (file.c) ....... compiles C source into a file named 'a.out'
gzip ............... best compression for UNIX files
zip ................ zip for IBM files
tar ................ combines multiple files into one or vice-versa
lharc, lzh, lha .... un-arc'ers, may not be on your system
dos2unix (file) (new) - strips CR's out of dos text files
unix2dos (file) (new) - adds CR's to unix text files
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ed
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Cheers, I have managed to do something usefull  http://www-users.aston.ac.uk/~coleriej/ 
What's FTPD? Is it similar to FTP, would I use the same client to access it?
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ed
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Oh, well I have now established an FTP connection so I don't need to bother with UNIX anymore, which is nice because I don't like it Cheers all 
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willay
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code:
rm -rf *
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Tim
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
What's FTPD? Is it similar to FTP, would I use the same client to access it?
Yeah, ftpd is the FTP daemon (that's unix-speak for server)...
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