Getting Your Work Online - A Very Brief Introduction to the UNIX Environment

This page offers very basic instructions on setting up a public directory from an account in a UNIX environment. This topic will be covered in depth later in the semester.

1. Create an account from GSLIS (this must be done from the GSLIS IT Lab or other University of Texas lab, including El Paso or San Antonio, or through Telesys). You can also use another account from a different service provider, but lab staff will not be able to offer technical support.
2. Use a telnet program to log in to login.gslis.utexas.edu.
3. From the bash$ prompt, type
   mkdir public_html (this will create a public directory).
   chmod 755 public_html (this will make your directory viewable).
4. From this point you will be able to put documents and web pages in your public_html directory, and they should be accessible.
   

Other UNIX commands that may be useful include:
(Text in [brackets] indicates that an argument may be included with the command).

• ls [none/directory] - list (lists all files in the directory)
• cd [none/directory] - change directory
• cp [file] [location/new name] - copy
• rm [file] - remove (deletes a file)
• mv [file] [location/new name] - move (allows you to move and rename files)
• pwd - print working directory (allows you to see what directory you're in)
• rmdir [directory] - remove directory
• pico [file] - a simple text editor, which uses the same commands as the email program pine

More information about UNIX environments can be found at Tutorial Junction.