We are developing a UNIX tutorial, aimed at absolute beginners to the UNIX operating system.

Improve your UNIX skills in 5 minutes! This section contains a range of quick tips, designed to get the UNIX beginner up to speed with some useful tricks in no time. We make a simple claim about the tips - each one will take no more than 30 seconds to read, but may improve your productivity forever!

Our vi tutorial is also aimed at absolute beginners, and is divided into manageable 10 minute segments.

The first of our guest articles, kindly contributed by Manu Anand. This article is an introduction to programming the X library in C.

We are currently in the process of selecting and publishing a set of the standard UNIX man pages, as it is our experience that these are often missing from systems when they are needed.

There's no getting away from it - 'vi' commands don't exactly stick in the mind. If you can't remember how to do a multiple search and replace, or insert one file into another, you're certainly not alone. Bookmark our 'vi Reference' and refer to it when you need to.

We are very pleased to host the 'vi editor FAQ' (Frequently Asked Questions), with the kind permission of its author, E. Larry Lidz.

There's no way we're going to teach you regular expressions from scratch, although we do recommend an excellent book which will. However, you should find this regular expressions reference useful as a reminder of basic regular expression meta-characters and syntax.

A complete and accurate reference guide to one of the World's favourite editors.

A reference to the most used and most difficult-to-remember awk functions.

When you're playing with regular expressions, awk, sed and the like, it's only a matter of time until you need an ASCII Table, and there's never one handy when you need it. Here's our no-nonsense ASCII Table - bookmark it now.