Course pages 2015–16
Unix Tools
Study materials
All in PDF for easy printing:
- Unix Tools slides (2up, 4up for printing), exercises
- Arthur Norman’s original course notes, slightly revised (available on paper at first lecture)
- GNU Bash-4.3 manual
- GNU Make-3.81 manual
- Perl-5.18.2 manual
- Unix
Tools answers to exercises
[access limited to supervisors and (after end of course) students]
Related links
- Single UNIX Specification (shell command language, utility conventions, sh, make)
- GNU Tools Source Code: bash, coreutils, make, rcs
- Subversion manual
- Perl documentation, Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), Perl.com, Perl Mongers
- Installing Linux on your own PC in Cambridge
Most of the tools discussed in the course can be explored and used on the MCS Linux installation in the Computer Laboratory’s Teaching Lab, which is currently a customized version of Ubuntu Linux 14.04. There are some Computing Service Unix Support notes on MCS Linux available. Problems with MCS Linux should be reported to [Javascript required] [but feel free to cc to me (mgk25) as well].
See also
- LaTeX and MATLAB (Part II)