Tuesday, February 20, 2007

My First Experience With Unix

We recently worked with Unix in my Informatics Lab. Basically, it is a very basic and ancient form of operating systems such as Windows or whatever Mac runs. Windows allows users to perform tasks and makes them simple by clicking on objects and so on. What Unix does is performs the tasks with the exception that you can't actually see the action take place. It's all done by text.

Some of the commands I learned were:

rm - which removes a file, much like clicking on or deleting a file in Windows
clear - which clears whatever is on the screen, much like minimizing or exiting programs to go back to the desktop and starting with "a clean slate".
more - provides more text or information, much like scrolling down a webpage or document with a mouse to see more of something.
cal - provides a calendar much like using Microsoft Outlook's calendar or the calendar on the desktop/toolbar in Windows.

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