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

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

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".
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.