Help:Unix help
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Basic help[edit]
- Help:Unix basic commands provides a list of commands for use on the unix command shell.
- Help:Unix online documentation where to find documentation in unix
See also Category:Unix tutorials, Category:Unix software
external links[edit]
- For all the Linux How To's The Linux Documentation Project
- Linux Command Directory
Output file browsers[edit]
- less
- browse and search within a file without editing (fast!)
- use G to jump to end of file, h for help
- tail -f file...
- Look at the tail end of the file and (-f) follow it as it grows
Editors[edit]
- Vi
- traditional unix editor, very keystroke efficient
- Emacs
- extremely powerful editor that can act as an Integrated Development Environment
- nano
- very simple terminal based text editor
- gedit / kate
- simple graphical linux editors similar to notepad
Mail readers[edit]
- mailx (obsolete) traditional unix mail reader
- mutt (best mail reader!)
Compilers[edit]
- gcc
- f77
- f90
- gfortran
Free software of note[edit]
- ImageMagick
- convert, display images
- gimp
- raster image editor, similar to photoshop
- locate
- search for files by name
Remote Access[edit]
In order to connect to Carnot (or any other server that is on campus) from off-campus you have a few options.
- Set up a VPN account and connect to that
- Help:SSH allows you to connect to the command prompt on a unix system and also allows the transfer of files to and from a unix machine.
- Help:X through ssh allows you to connect to the X Windows System remotely by tunneling the commands through ssh.