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This chapter describes how you start (and finish) a session on a UNIX computer, together with some of the basic commands which you can use. We assume that you are now using a UNIX or Linux system which has a system administrator. If you are using a stand-alone Linux system, then you are the system administrator. From now on, any reference to UNIX should be interpreted as ‘UNIX or Linux’, since the two operating systems appear virtually identical to the user.
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© 2002 Mike Joy, Stephen Jarvis and Michael Luck
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Joy, M., Jarvis, S., Luck, M. (2002). Getting started. In: Introducing UNIX and Linux. Grassroots. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-80245-2_4
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