Web Engineering Unix FAQ
Unix Frequently Asked QuestionsThe following are questions which seem to frequently come up in the first few lab sessions in INT3WE Web Engineering. Important Note: there are some topics which are explicitly not addressed in this FAQ, because they are covered in the Web Engineering tutorial classes. If you don't attend tute sessions, you won't get this information.
- Can you please explain the Unix
shell (command line interface)?
- I'm going to be doing a lot of programming in this subject. Which text editor should I use?
- When I attempt to run my Perl program, I get the error message
Command not found -- what's
going on, my program should be fine?
- How can I easily view a textfile in Unix
- How do I do a remote login (remote shell)
to another system, eg redgum?
- How do I indicate EOF (End of File) when
typing text into STDIN?
- How do I search through a group of text
files by content -- in other words, how do I discover which file
contains a specified string?
- What does it mean when you say that my PATH
is incorrect, and how can I fix it?
- How can I edit a file on a remote system,
like redgum, when I only have a shell commandline on that
system?
- How do I convert a DOS (Windows) formatted
textfile into a Unix textfile?
- Here's a tour of the Unix filesystem,
so you can find out what all those different files and directories
are all about.
- Can you please give me some hints on how to use Unix X-Windows (X11) system and the Unix/Linux GUI on our lab machines? Note:
this isn't really an FAQ question -- more an attempt to wean
students off the Windoze "way of working"
:-)
Unix-related Information on the Web
There are (literally) millions of Web sites with tutorial information on using Unix and Linux. For example:Idaho State University Unix Tutorial
Unix Tutorial from the Electronic Engineering Department at the University of Surrey
Norman Matloff's Unix Tutorial Center (sic)
Unix/Linux Guide from Stanford University School of Earth Sciences
Unix tutorial from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah
University of Virginia Library "HelpText"
Try googling unix tutorial and see how many more you get!.
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