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General Unix Info

Introduction to Unix Comprehensive list of features in Unix (external link)
Basics A brief list of a few basic unix shell commands to get you started
Quick Reference PDF quick reference file with Unix commands
Disk Quotas Information about dealing with disk quotas
Setting your DISPLAY Variable Having trouble getting graphical applications working in the labs?
Chinese, Japanese, Korean Support How to input Chinese, Japanese, Korean characters in Linux.
Printing Instructions on how to print files from DECF workstations and servers
UNIX Documentation Where to find information about UNIX and UNIX programs
UNIX Commands A summary of useful UNIX commands
Permissions How UNIX file permissions work and how to deal with them
UNIX Text Formatting The UNIX *roff utilities and tips on using them
Linux Cluster How-to Tutorials for the 1111 & 1171 labs.
Computing and Processsing PracticesInformation on loads and running jobs on DECF clusters.

Your Unix Account
Login Files More information about login initialzation files
Passwords How to change your password and how to choose a good one
Changing Finger Information How to change what information people see when they finger your euler account
CShell Information on using /bin/csh, the C Shell Command Interpreter
Tilde How to use the '~' character in csh style shells
Shell Paths How your UNIX shell finds what program you try to run. An introduction to paths

Unix Editors

Emacs A quick-start guide to using the GNU Emacs text editor
Pico A user friendly text editor. Great for novice Unix users
VI Some hints relating to the use of the UNIX vi editor
VI practice file A practice tutorial to get you started using vi
VI quick reference sheet A list of vi commands

Unix Commands

Make Help on using the UNIX "make" utility
Printing Instructions on how to print files from DECF workstations and servers
Kill How to interrupt or abort a process using the kill command
Finger How to use the UNIX finger utility
No More Processes? What to do when you exhaust your allotted number of processes

 

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