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Unix Basics

Unix tips, tricks and principles.

• (X)dialog: Talking shells
  Xdialog and dialog a two classic utilities to enhance you shell scripts with a graphical user interface.
  
• Running applications remotely with X11
  X Window System is much more than just an environment to manage the windows of graphical applications.
  
• A whole new world: A guided tour with Tux through the land of the penguin
  Explore the land of the penguin with Tux as a guide on your side.
  
• Shell Programming
  In this article we explain how to write little scripts.
  
• Booting three different operating systems: RedHat Linux 5.2, SCO Openserver 5.0.5 and Windows NT 4.0
  Edgar explains how to setup one PC boot to boot 3 operating systems.
  
• How to partition your hard drive for Linux
  Thomas explains how he has chosen to partition his hard disk.
  
• GNU utilities
  The GNU utilities are a set of standard UNIX commands available with almost every UNIX system.
  
• How to use a Ramdisk for Linux
  This article shows how to use RAM as a virtual harddisk.
  
• How to use your CD-ROM under Linux
  This article gives a short but useful description on how to use your CD-ROM under Linux.
  
• Funny shell commands
  Some interesting answers form your Unix c-shell
  
• Awk
  Examples on how to use AWK
  
• File Access Permissions
  This article is divided into two parts: The first part (Basic file access permissions) is a very short introduction to the basic file permission concept under Unix. The second part (T-bit, SUID and SGID) covers more advanced features of Linux that go beyond the basic "read-write-execute" flags.
  
• Basic UNIX commands
  Simple introduction to some of the basic UNIX tools
  
• Finding Files
  How to search for files by name or content.
  
• Regular Expressions
  Regular expressions are advanced search patters. This Article gives an introduction.
  
• Through the Window
  Some notes about window managers.
  
• Configuring X
  What are all those dotfiles for anyway?
  
• Some Tips
  Well...here are some notes, tricks, some of these are specific to non-english speaking users and therefore not frequently answered in the common documentation.
  
• I got Linux Installed, What next?
  This article introduces new users to some of the issues that he/she will confront upon installation of Linux.
  
• Connecting to the Internet
  Here we have something lots of users face up to in their early stages of setting Linux up: Connecting to the Internet.
  
• Installation of Manpages-es
  How to get man-pages of the most important Linux system commands in Spanish.