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

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

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".

• Miscellanous text-editor advocacy (mostly for fun, though you might find them persuasive):
  • The Cult of vi.
  • The Vi Lover's Home Page.
  • 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).

• Google's Usenet archives, specifically the group comp.text.tex .

• TeX/LaTeX-friendly editors/environment (suggestions courtesy of alum Alex Kolliopoulos, from a few years back):
  • 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 -- and this list may not be up to date):
  • The RegExp Coach (installed in /users/cs3190u/regexp/regex-coach/regex-coach).
  • Visual REGEXP (installed in /users/cs3190u/regexp/visual_regexp-3.0/tkregexp).
  • RegExplorer (seems promising, but not installed).

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.

Miscellaneous technical

• The Linux Documentation Project.

• Introduction to ncurses (a library for GUI-like programming in text mode).

• SSH without Prompts on the CS Linux Machines.