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UNIX tips: Learn 10 more good UNIX usage habits
As a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up. 		Articles 27 May 2008  
 
Produce device-independent documentation with Groff
Groff (GNU Troff) is the latest open source implementation of Troff, a document-preparation system that generates print and screen documents for various devices from the same input source. Get an introduction to the Groff system and learn how you can use it for preparing your documentation, help systems, reports, or any printed output where professional quality, portability, and support for multiple output formats are desired. 		Tutorials 27 Jun 2006  
 
Emacs editing environment, Part 7: Let Emacs help you out
Part 7 of this series shows you why Emacs is the self-documenting editor, and the many ways in which you can take advantage of the help and assistance offered in this editor. In this tutorial, learn about describing keystrokes, commands, and functions. You'll also read, browse, and search through a complete Emacs reference manual. 		Tutorials 13 Nov 2007  
 
Emacs editing environment, Part 6: Customize your Emacs world
This tutorial, the sixth in a series, walks you through some of the useful ways you can customize and configure the Emacs environment. Learn how to change everything about the Emacs environment to your liking, from the behavior of minor modes to the default key bindings. Along the way, figure out how to set variables, make all your customizations automatic with a startup file, save and recall any window and frame customizations that you make, and use the easy customizer that comes built into Emacs. 		Tutorials 02 Oct 2007  
 
Emacs editing environment, Part 5: Shape your Emacs view
This tutorial, the fifth in a series, shows you how to manage and manipulate the shape your Emacs session -- examine how to partition the Emacs screen, create multiple X client windows for a single Emacs session, and display multiple buffers in each window, dividing the screen with horizontal and vertical divisions. You also learn about mouse window control and characteristics so that by the time you're through, you can make your Emacs session look and work the way you want it to. 		Tutorials 07 Aug 2007  
 
Emacs editing environment, Part 4: Options, registers, and bookmarks
Take charge of your editing session within Emacs and use it to your advantage. This tutorial is the fourth in a series, and shows you three areas of Emacs that control some aspect of the editing session: various command-line options, the register, and bookmark facilities for setting and saving positions and data. Knowing how and when to use these features, and what tricks are possible with them, are important topics in power editing. 		Tutorials 17 Jul 2007  
 
Know your regular expressions
You can build and test regular expressions (regexps) on UNIX(R) systems in several ways. Discover the available tools and techniques that can help you learn how to construct regular expressions for various programs and languages. 		Articles 14 Jun 2007  
 
Explore powerful UNIX writer's tools
Long ago, UNIX(R) had a proprietary package called the Writer's Workbench (WWB). Developers, administrators, and technical writers who used to use this package in their work deeply miss it -- its powerful capabilities made the UNIX workstation a preferred environment for document editing and proofreading. Today, many new implementations of those tools are available for all UNIX systems, and you can also find open source equivalents of the key WWB tools. Discover these tools and learn how to use them, building a custom style guide checker in the process. 		Tutorials 22 May 2007  
 
Emacs editing environment, Part 3: Advanced Emacs text operations
This tutorial, the third in a series, builds on what you've learned by taking you through a tour of some of the more advanced Emacs features for text operations. You get a hands-on demonstration of advanced editing techniques, including how to perform a recursive edit, mark and use rectangles of text, and handle complex selection techniques using the kill ring and the secondary selection. 		Tutorials 01 May 2007  
 
Emacs editing environment, Part 2: Learn the essential modes and editing features of Emacs
One of the powerhouses of UNIX computing, the open source Emacs editor is a large, complex application that does everything from edit text to function as a complete development environment. This tutorial, the second in a series, introduces you to some of the essential concept of modes, shows you some of the powerful text manipulation functions available, and teaches you how to use the built-in search, replace, and spell check facilities of Emacs. 		Tutorials 10 Apr 2007  
 
Emacs editing environment, Part 1: Learn the basics of Emacs
Master the Emacs editor and delve into the depths of its most advanced editing commands that have made it famous. The open source Emacs editor (one of the powerhouses of UNIX(R) computing) is a large, complex application that does everything from editing text to functioning as a complete development environment. It's rich in features and is unlike any other program you're likely to have encountered, especially in the way you specify and input commands. This tutorial, the first in a series, gets you going by providing a concise, hands-on introduction to the most important Emacs editing concepts and features. 		Tutorials 20 Mar 2007  
 
UNIX tips and tricks for a new user, Part 4: Some nifty shell tricks
When writing a shell program, you often come across some special situation that you'd like to handle automatically. This tutorial includes examples of such situations from small Bourne shell scripts. These situations include base conversion from one string to another (decimal to hex, hex to decimal, decimal to octal, and so on), reading the keyboard while in a piped loop, subshell execution, inline input, executing a command once for each file in a directory, and multiple ways to construct a continuous loop. Part 4 of this series wraps up with a collection of shell one-liners that perform useful functions. 		Tutorials 20 Feb 2007  
 
Save time with text editing one-liners
Take a quick look at some essential editing one-liners that can save you time and effort. Text-editing operations are normally done interactively, inside a text editor application. Some tasks, however, can be accomplished quickly and easily, right from the UNIX(R) command line. What's more, these one-liners can be used in scripts to automate various editing procedures. 		Articles 16 Jan 2007  
 
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX(R) command line productivity -- and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up. 		Articles 12 Dec 2006  
 
UNIX tips: Become a better blogger with UNIX
Did you know that blogging and UNIX(R) go hand in hand? The native Web and text-processing tools of UNIX enable you to create your blogs quickly and easily. Discover some handy tips for improving your UNIX blogging skills. 		Articles 10 Oct 2006  
 
Get started with GAWK: AWK language fundamentals
Discover the basic concepts of the AWK text-processing and pattern-scanning language. This tutorial gets you started programming in AWK: You'll learn how AWK reads and sorts its input data, run AWK programs, manipulate data, and perform complex pattern matching. When you're finished, you'll also understand GNU AWK (GAWK). 		Tutorials 19 Sep 2006  
 
UNIX tips: Productivity tips
Using UNIX(R) in a day-to-day office setting doesn't have to be clumsy. Learn some of the many ways, both simple and complex, to use the power of the UNIX shell and available system tools to greatly increase your productivity in the office. 		Articles 21 Sep 2006  
 
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