Intro to UNIX

Command Syntax

• Name of Command
• Options (usually preceded by hyphen(s))
• Argument(s)
• Examples
• date
• ls -l
• ls -alt
• ls --all
• ls --all -lt
• ls -l file1 file2
• ls -l /full/pathname/to/directory/
• ls -ld /full/pathname/to/directory/
• cp -p existingFilename /full/path/to/new/copy