[Zaphod-Users] Learning Linux, bash, and subversion

[Douglas Larson]

Recently it has become apparent that some new users of zaphod have
different skills.
In order to bring people up to speed, the following free resources
should be read:

UNIX Tutorials for Beginners
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=MContent&pageid=224
<https://artemis.sr.unh.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux-tutorial.info%2Fmodules.php%3Fname%3DMContent%26pageid%3D224>
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
<https://artemis.sr.unh.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ee.surrey.ac.uk%2FTeaching%2FUnix%2F>

INTERMEDIATE LINUX. This is excellent and free.
LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting
by Mendel Cooper
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
<https://artemis.sr.unh.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftldp.org%2FLDP%2Fabs%2Fhtml%2F>

This one primarily applies to space science:
"Version control with Subversion" Read the Version 1.4 edition
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
<https://artemis.sr.unh.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsvnbook.red-bean.com%2F>

When you compile your code, it is a good idea to use a name other than
the default "a.out"
Recommended method: 'gcc hello.c -o hello' because now you know the
executable is hello's.
Bad form: 'gcc hello.c' because it always names the executable "a.out"

Although presented as a joke, the following page shows many ways of
writing a "hello world" program
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/helloworld.html
An exhaustive collection of Hello World is located at
http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm

Advanced users may want to explore building their projects with autotools.
See http://autotoolset.sourceforge.net/
The venerable hello world is presented in this section:
http://autotoolset.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html#SEC30

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Doug