Online Notes and Tutorials

• A Short Bash Tutorial
  A short tutorial from Rutgers.
• Bash Guide for Beginners, Machtelt Garrels
  A more extensive tutorial from the Linux Documentation Project. See this page for alternative document formats. (Look for the Beginner's Guide, NOT the advanced guide which is also by Garrels ... unless that's what you really want.)
• An Introduction to Linux, Machtelt Garrels
  If you are unfamiliar with basic Unix, I suggest reading Chapters 1, 2, and 3. You can ignore topics having to do with system administration since we are not trying to install Linux. Eventually, Chapters 4, 5 and 7 will be helpful. If you don't know a Unix editor, try vim which is described in Chapter 6 or emacs which is described in numerous web sites that can be found by googling. Here's another link that might be helpful: Introduction to Unix with Exercises (Perhaps a gentler approach than Garrels).