References

This chapter covered a lot of ground. The references will help you go into more depth on the Linux file system, shells, editors, and permissions. When choosing a shell or an editor, I highly recommend reviewing their man (or info) pages, as well as their websites.

File System

• http://www.pathname.com/fhs Probably more than you want to know about the new Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

• http://www.linuxbase.org The Linux Standard Base page.

• http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/posix The IEEE POSIX information page.

Shells

• http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html Chet Ramey's bash page. He is the current maintainer of the bash project.

• http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ The Bash Beginners Guide as a web page. If you visit you can get this in other formats, along with other excellent Linux resources.

• http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/ The Public Domain Korn Shell home page.

• http://www.tcsh.org/Welcome The tcsh Wiki. Learn more and contribute your own knowledge about this C Shell.

• http://www.zsh.org/ Home of the Z Shell. Select a nearby mirror.

• http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-z.html Good introduction to the Z shell from IBM.

• http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ Home of the Midnight Commander. Screen shots, FAQs, and a TODO list for the developers.

• http://www.dotfiles.com/ Explore contributed configuration files for various shells, editors, and other tools.

• http://www.shelldorado.com/ Heiner's Shelldorado. Much scripting information for all shells, but a good introduction, too.

Editors

• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html The GNU/Emacs home page.

• http://www.dotemacs.de/ The "very unofficial dotemacs home." Explore the many ways to configure your emacs.

• http://www.emacswiki.org Find new modules and helpful people here.

• http://www.vim.org/ The Vim home page.

• http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/ Where to find documentation of all sorts for Vim.

• http://www.yzis.org/ The new project from the developers of Kvim for the K Desktop Environment.

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/ The home for Joe's Own Editor.

• http://jedit.org/ The Java-based editor.

Working as Root

• http://linux.about.com/od/embedded/l/blnewbie_toc.htm The Linux Newbie Administrator Guide. A basic overview.

• http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/ The sudo main page. Downloads, documentation, and resources for this command.