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).
• Glibc Manual
  These manual pages describe the facilities in the GNU library which provide function call interface to capabilities that are not part of the C language. You can get your own copy of the manual pages using the above link. The links below refer to the version labeled "HTML with one web page per node." Our interest is focussed primarily on these sections:
  • Processes
  • Signal Handling
  • Pipes and FIFOs
  • POSIX Threads
  • Setting an Alarm
  • Job Control