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Accessing Linux Servers In order to access a Linux system in the College of Engineering (CoE) you have several options and the work you need to do will det...

Shell Access (SSH) To access your College of Engineering account from a location off campus, just follow these easy steps: Open the PuTTY SSH client.  I...

So, you want to tunnel your xwindows session?  No problem.  The first step is to determine what type of machine you will be connecting from.  If it is a Wi...

Short answer: Use 'screen'. UNIX screen Tutorial Have you even been performing a time-consuming operation on a remote server through SSH and yo...

Basic Commands copy cp move mv rename mv directory listing ls change directory cd create directory mkdir show current...

If you use the bash command shell, you may make a modification to your environment that will prohibit core files from using up disk space in your directorie...

You can use the ls command to list files in the current directory.  However, the ls command and its derivatives will ignore "dot-files," which are...

You can see the existing permissions by using the ls command, and you can change them by using the chmod command--like this:  If you type: ls -alg you get ...

Suppose you have a filename with spaces or special characters, such as:  -rw-r--r--  1 someuser student     273 Apr  9 18:45 My Filename With Spaces -rw-r...

On UNIX systems, when you type a command, the shell looks through a list of possible command locations to figure out what program it should run.  This list i...