CSCI 3294 (Unix Power Tools):
Sample Programs

Shell scripts

• upmachines: Script to display names of all machines that are "up".
• lcname: Script to rename a file, changing all uppercase to lowercase.
• rename-them: Script to do mass rename of files, changing suffix (from class 2/08).
• factorial: Script to compute n factorial (from class 2/08).
• google: Script to start lynx with google.com or results of search (mentioned in class 3/20).

Configuration files

Vim configuration files

• "Main" configuration file (goes in $HOME/.vimrc).
• Configuration file for editing code (goes in $HOME/.vim/vimrc-for-code, start vim with vim -u $HOME/.vim/vimrc-for-code).
• Common options, sourced by both of the above (goes in $HOME/.vim/vimrc-base).

LaTeX

• sampler.tex: Source for a sampler document (examples of many features). Contains instructions for generating PostScript and PDF output.
• mybiblio.bib: Bibliography file for sampler.tex.
• Related files needed to process sampler.tex, and PDF output generated two ways. The figure was created with xfig.

CGI and other Web "active content"

• Executable versions of examples, mostly from class.
• Source for examples, mostly from class.
• Forms example from class (preliminary version) with METHOD=get or METHOD=post. Source for processing scripts is in the source directory.