Monmouth Internet - Unix Shell Help

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The Unix Shell allows you to connect to the internet through Monmouth Internet's SHELL Server. Shell is a text based interface unlike the old MS-DOS. In SHELL you can maintain your Web Directory, Send and Recieve Email, Play Games, Communicate with others through IRC (Chat), write programs and more. Unix is a very powerful multiuser operating system. For this reason most of the Internet is based on Unix.

How to get into SHELL

Users will need to download an SSH 2 client which is required to access our shell server. Please checkout the following page for some cool ssh clients.
http://www.monmouth.com/members_only/shareware.html

The settings you will need are as follows:

1. Server/Host = shell.monmouth.com

2. Protocol = SSH2

3. Encryption type = 3DES

4. Your username and password are required for access to shell

Monmouth Internet Unix Shell Tutor

Simple Commands to help you get arround:

Command	Example	What it does
man command	man chmod	lists instructions for chmod command
ls	ls	lists direcory contents
ls -l	ls -l	lists direcory contents with details
cd directory	cd /user_pages	changes directory to /user_pages
cd ..	cd ..	moves back one directory
menu	menu	starts the Monmouth Internet Menu
rm filename	rm index.html	deletes index.html file
mkdir dirname	mkdir private	creates directory called private
rmdir dirname	rmdir private	deletes directory called private
pico filename	pico index.html	edit file called index.html
chmod number filename	chmod 664 index.html	change file attributes for index.html
Complete instructions are available for each command by using the "man" command. i.e. man chmod

vi the Unix Editor

vi is a powerfull unix editor used for writing CGI Scripts or Programs.
Command	What it does
vi filename	Starts vi to edit the file
i	Insert at this point
o	Make new line and insert text there
a	Append
[esc]	Escape - End this insert
u	Undo
dd	Delete Line - Cut Line
yy	Yank Line - Copy
p	Paste
:w	Save File
:q	Quit vi

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