Unix Tipsheet

The information included here is for The University of Alabama central computing facility as it was configured on the document date. It may or may not apply to other Unix systems.

Volume 1: Summer 1998

  1. What's Happening on Bama Right Now?
  2. Simple Unix Commands
  3. The Unix Environment
  4. Using Pipes and Switches
  5. Manipulating Your Mail
  6. File Permissions and Security
  7. Compilers
  8. Connecting to Bama
  9. The Bama Web Server
  10. Finding Files in Unix
  11. Filename Metacharacters (Wild Cards)
  12. Unix Paths

Volume 2: Fall 1998

  1. Automating Repetitive Jobs with Unix
  2. Printing on Bama
  3. Getting Help
  4. How Unix is Not Like VM
  5. Bama Behind the Scenes
  6. What's In a Name
  7. Instant Replay
  8. Being Security Conscious
  9. Does Unix on Bama Have REXX? -Revised!
  10. Space Saving Ideas
  11. Free Doesn't Necessarily Mean Easy
  12. The X-Files
  13. This and That

Volume 3: Spring 1999

  1. To VI or Not to VI, That Is The Question
  2. Graphically Speaking
  3. All in the Family - Unix Processes
  4. Initially Speaking
  5. The Well-Groomed Login
  6. Picture This
  7. Permissions and File Sharing
  8. Text Processing on Bama
  9. Number Crunching on Bama
  10. Using Tapes on Bama

Volume 4: Fall 1999

  1. Help for the Unix Impaired
  2. TeX and LaTeX on Bama
  3. Web Pages That Don't Work - an Image Problem
  4. Oh No, Backup! New Information