CSCI 3215 (Advanced UNIX Command-Line Tools):
Useful/Interesting Links and Other Resources

Course-related links

• Zoom meetings and recordings.
• Zoom info for my office hours.
• Options for doing homework.
• Script to mail files for homework submission mail-files. Useful if working remotely with only a text-mode connection. Instructions for usage here.

General tutorials

• Introduction to Linux: A Hands-On Guide. (Available in other formats from the Linux Documentation Project.)
• Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition (a more administrator-oriented tutorial).

Shells and shell scripts

• GNU Bash Reference Manual.
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide. the Linux Documentation Project). (Available in other formats from the Linux Documentation Project.)

Editors

• GNU Emacs Manual.
• Vim home page.
• Another vim home page, by its principal author. In particular check out the links at the bottom of the page to his paper "Seven habits of effective text editing".
• My notes "vim Hints and Tips".
• Miscellanous text-editor advocacy (mostly for fun, though you might find them persuasive):
  • Why oh why vi.
  • The case for emacs.

TeX and LaTeX

• TeX Frequently Asked Questions (with links to many other resources).
• The Not So Short Introduction to Latex2e (not so short, but widely recommended).
• Formatting information: A beginner's introduction to typesetting with LaTeX (somewhat shorter browser-friendly introduction).
• CTAN (TeX Archive) (where to download extra packages).
• "Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient" (entertaining rant on why TeX and LaTeX are better).

Make and makefiles

• GNU Make (reference manual).

Regular expressions

• Learning to Use Regular Expressions (tutorial).

CGI scripting

• CGI Made Really Easy. A reasonable start.
• Apache Tutorial: Dynamic Content with CGI. How to configure Apache to allow executing CGI scripts. (Compare with configuration on Linux lab machines.)
• Tutorial on HTML forms.

Other tools, etc.

• Home page for gnuplot.
• Introduction to ncurses (a library for GUI-like programming in text mode).
• SSH without Prompts on the CS Linux Machines.
• The Linux Documentation Project.

Miscellaneous non-technical

• Some words from the opposition: The Unix Hater's Handbook.
• Fun(?) stuff:
  • Text editors again.
  • Regular expressions.