Thanks to freeengineer.org, their guide to learning UNIX in 10 minutes is available which covers some of the basic unix commands to help you move around the system.

Those who have used DOS back in the day, some of the same basic commands exist:

• cp file1 file2 copy a file
• mv file1 renamed file1 move or rename a file
• rm file1 [file2 …] remove or delete a file
• rm -r dir1 [dir2…] recursivly remove a directory and its contents BE CAREFUL!
• mkdir dir1 [dir2…] make a directory
• rmdir dir1 [dir2…] remove an empty directory
• export CASROOT=/usr/local/CAS3.0 Defines the variable CASROOT with the value /usr/local/CAS3.0.