Department of Engineering

File-related information

General

• Quotas
• Frequently Asked Questions about files.
• Icons and files (from the Introduction for New Users)
• Folders (from the Introduction for New Users)
• Creating, copying, moving and viewing files (from the Unix from the command line document)
• Deleting files and directories(from the Unix from the command line document)
• Summary of File and Directory handling commands(from the Unix from the command line document)

File Properties

• About Directories and Permissions (from the Unix from the command line document)
• More about Unix groups and Permissions

File Types

• Common file types
• Wotsit's Format

Compression

• To compress a file use FileRoller on the applications panel, or zip and gzip from the command line
• To uncompress a file, just click on it. Alternatively, use unzip (for *.zip files, etc), or gunzip (for *.gz files, etc), and tar

Moving files between machines

• Putting files on the World Wide Web
• Getting files in and out of the Teaching System
• To copy from one CUED unix machine to another, use scp. However, for this to work the machine you're copying to must "trust" you on the machine you're copying from. See the scp help pages to find out how to do this.
• To copy files to/from machines outside the department, read about ftp