UNIX URLS

Below are a collection of Unix related resources on the Web. I have tried to group these into a finite set of general categories. There is some overlap. You may find the identical url in several places. Please let me know of additional sites (jsdutt@planetx)

Introductions to UNIX and descriptions of some essential UNIX commands:

• UNIX Survival: http://gc.bcm.tmc.edu:8088/gc_help/unix.html

• Links to Basic Unix Resources: http://ugrad-www.cs.colorado.edu/unix/Home.html

• Cornell Theory Center. Overview of AIX (IBM's UNIX) for New Users: http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/Tutor/Basics/overview/

On-Line Unix Tutorials:

• On-Line Tutorial: Unix help for Users: http://www.us.itd.umich.edu/docs/tutorials/UnixHelp/

• Interesting site on UNIX, a unix tutorial: http://naitweb.nait.ab.ca/cst/courses/bcs260/WWWPages/unix.htm

• On-Line Course on Basics of Unix: http://huachuca-link33.army.mil/hpw/online/basic_unix/pg1.html

• Unix intro: http://wxweb.msu.edu/ucgdocuments/misc/unixtut.html

• An on-line tutorial, seven pages: http://www.lib.mq.edu.au:2000/tafe/comp1.html to http://www.lib.mq.edu.au:2000/tafe/comp7.html Each page is devoted to achieving a competency in some aspect of Unix.

• Columbia University's on-line Unix Tutorial and Pointers to other tutorials: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/tutor/tutor.html

UNIX Training Software:

• Unix Survival: http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~hummelg/calydon.html

Unix Guides:

• CERN UNIX Guide: http://consult.cern.ch/writeup/unixguide/main.html

• On-line Unix manual (www interface): http://nmt.edu/bin/man

  or http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/cgi-bin/man-cgi

• Unix help site - Unix help for Users: http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/UNIXhelp/TOP_.html

  also at: http://thunder.indstate.edu/www/unix/Unixhelp/TOP_.html and http://coos.dartmouth.edu/~pete/Unixhelp/TOP_.html

• Unix How To's: http://mercury.cs.uregina.ca/comp/unix/howto.shtml

Unix File System:

• The Unix file system - by Hal Stern: http://www.Sun.COM/sunworldonline/swol-09-1995/swol-09-sysadmin.html

UNIX History and Evolution:

• A short Unix History: http://www-cs.canisius.edu/UNIX_TUTORIALS/UNIX/history

• UNIX History: http://wxweb.msu.edu/~crs/papers/talks/unixhist/

• Linux Users Guide: http://gandalf.pht.com/linux-int/internet/LDP/guide/guide.html

• A Brief History of Unix: http://iaix3.informatik.htw-dresden.de/lehrmaterial/unix_history.html

• History of Unix (humor): http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dschluss/humor/unix.html

  also see: http://corrine.cpc.cs.ucf.edu/humor/UNIX-hoax.html

• A Brief History of Unix: http://huachuca-link33.army.mil/hpw/online/basic_unix/pg4.html

• Unix History: http://milieu.grads.vt.edu/unix_history.html

• On the Evolution of Unix and the Automation of Telephone Support Operations (i.e. of Computer Automation) by Ronda Hauben: http://groucho.idt-isep.ipp.pt/docs/unix.html

• Unix at 25, Peter Salas: http://www.byte.com/art/9410/sec8/art3.htm

• Review of Salas's Book: A Quarter Century of Unix: http://www.anatomy.su.oz.au:80/danny/book-reviews/h/A_Quarter_Century_of_UNIX.html

Unix Standards:

• Standardizing UNIX: http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-3/unix-standards.html

• Single Unix Specification: http://www.xopen.org/public/tech/unix/index.htm overview of Single UNIX Specification

• Overview of Unix flavors: http://www.erc.msstate.edu/sysadmin/faqs/unix6.html

• IBM AIX 4.1: http://www.austin.ibm.com/software/aix411.html (IBMsite)

Unix Resources Pages (Page with Unix Pointers):

• Unix-World Online Resources Page: http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/resources/unix.html

• Temple CIS Labs - Unix Documentation and Pointers: http://www.cis.temple.edu/cislabs/unix/unix.html

• The Unix Reference Desk: http://www.eecs.nwu.edu/unix.html#general

• Rice University's Unix Document page: http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Computer/Documents/#HDR17

• Unix Topics, including AIX and Linux: http://www.compinfo.co.uk/tpunix.htm

• YAHOO UNIX URL: http://www.yahoo.com/text/Computers_and_Internet/Operating_Systems/Unix/

• Pointers to variety of unix sites (FOLLOW UP) http://www.pointcom.com/text/reviews/coplun.htm

Advanced Unix Sites:

• Unix Guru Universe: http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?ugu

• Jeff's Unix Valut - for hard core unix nerds as well as beginners: http://www.NDA.COM/~jblaine/vault/

Unix Security:

• Overview http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/Docs/network-security.html

• UNIX back door: http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~sanjiv/sys_sec/security/back_door.html

UNIX shells:

• UNIX shells - history, pros and cons, selecting a shell: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/misc/faqs/msg00139.html

vi Links:

• vi Tutorial (Unix World Online: Tutorial: Article No. 009. Part 1: Vi Editor Fundamentals) http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/archives/95/tutorial/009/009.html

• Unix World Online Resources Page http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/resources/unix.html

• Visual Editor (vi): A Tutorial http://www.acm.usl.edu/tutorial/vi/vi_tutor_toc.html

• Some interesting comments on vi: VI? what can it do? http://pace1.cts.mtu.edu:8080/vi_sem.html

• vi editor FAQ http://www.acm.usl.edu/tutorial/vi/faq/

• vi quick Reference http://www.acm.usl.edu/tutorial/vi/vi_quick_toc.html

• Advanced vi techniques: http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/archives/95/answers/002.html

Shell Programming (Bourne Shell):

• http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/UNIXhelp/scrpt_scrpt2.html

• http://garfield.ir.ucf.edu/manual/aix/bourne.html

• An Introduction to Bourne Shell Scripts (Rice Univ):http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Computer/Documents/Classes/Unix/bourne/bourne.html

• Cornell Theory Center: Using and Writing Shell Scripts: http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/Tutor/Basics/shell/

Perl sites:

• Perl Information: Links to wealth of info on Perl: gopher://feenix.metronet.com:70/11/perlinfo

• Yahoo Perl Page: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Languages/Perl/

• Public version of Perl for IBM unix AIX 4.1: ftp://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/pub/perl/RISC/4.1/exec/

• Perl by example from Unix World: http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/archives/95/grabbag/001.html

• The University of Florida Perl Archive: http://www1.cis.ufl.edu/perl/

  The Perl Programming Language: http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/public/perl/perl.html

• Robert Stockton's Hypertext Perl Manual: http://www.cis.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/plindex

UNIX Humor:

• Unix History: http://web.kaleida.com/hopkins/text/unix-history.html

• Politically Correct Unix: http://fiction.isdn.uiuc.edu/tidbits/pc-unix.html also at: http://sw.cse.bris.ac.uk/public/pcunix.html

• More in Sorrow than in Anger: A Requiem for a Dying Operating System or The Conquerer Has No Clothes: http://web.kaleida.com/hopkins/text/requium.html

• Unix Hater's Handbook Home Page: http://www.kaleida.com/u/hopkins/unix-haters.html

Operating Systems Courses:

• OS Course: http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~sanjiv/cs376/intro.html

• U of V. OS Course: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jorg/CS656/CS656.html

• CS 3560 - Introduction to Systems Programming: http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~morgan/notes_CS3560/isp01.txt

Miscellaneous Unix links:

• Micro-Focus COBOL in a UNIX Environment: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/docs/infofax/InfoFax.html