CSCI 3294 (Unix Power Tools):
Useful Links and Other Resources

(Suggestions for additions to this page are welcome; send to bmassing@cs.trinity.edu.)

Useful links

• 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.
  • Xemacs home page.
  • 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".

• 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).
  • Google's Usenet archives, specifically the group comp.text.tex .
  • TeX/LaTeX-friendly editors/environment (suggestions courtesy of alum Alex Kolliopoulos):
    • Kile
    • TeXnicCenter

• Make and makefiles:
  • GNU Make (reference manual).
• Regular expressions:
  • Learning to Use Regular Expressions (tutorial).
  • Some free programs for testing regular expressions (for Linux -- there are several others apparently available for Windows only):
    • The RegExp Coach (installed in my home directory under Pgms/regexp).
    • Visual REGEXP (installed in my home directory under Pgms/regexp).
    • RegExplorer (seems promising, not installed because it requires additional libraries).

• 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.

• The Linux Documentation Project.

• Miscellaneous stuff:
  • How to set things up so you can use ssh without supplying a password: Dr. Nickels's how-to. Notice that the directory $HOME/.ssh should not be world-readable!