Unix Help

• Using putty for remote access to the comp ling lab
• Beginner's Unix Tutorial
• A somewhat more focused beginner's Unix Tutorial (U Chicago)
• Unix Command Summary
• Faster-paced Unix Tutorial
• (Incomplete) Reference Manual
• man (online command by command documentation)
  Use the "man" (for "manual") command when you already know the name of a command to view its online documentation. For example
  % man sort
  will describe the Unix sorting command. This is especially helpful when you've used the command before but can't remember all the options and switches. Try this with "sort" to see all the different kinds of sorting Unix provides.

Unix History

1. Genetic Relationships among different "Unix-type" Systems (from OpenSource.org)
   

2. An excellent online discussion of the history of Unix (as well as ongoing lawsuits respecting its lineage) can be found here.

1. Using mail and ftp
2. grep
   • Grep help
   • Some simple exercises with grep
   • More grep help
3. Using cqp
4. Emacs
   • Using emacs (intro, the first step)
   • Emacs Beginner's HOW-TO (English)
   • Handy dandy command reference cards for Emacs (Version 21)
     • English
     • Czech
     • French
     • Polish
     • German
   • Tutorials
     • English (brief)
     • English (longer)
     • German
     • Japanese
     • Korean
     • Czech
     • Polish
     • Dutch
     • Romanian
     • Spanish
     • Slovak
     • Slovenian
   • Emacs manual
   • Emacs foreign character interface (not for beginners)
5. Latex
   1. Intro
   2. Hypertext Help for Latex (Latex Intro/Tutorial/Help).
      1. Mirror Sites for the above
      2. Sheldon Green's augmented version of Latex Hypertext Help
6. Batch jobs in Unix.