Intro

This page contains commands (tools) which are not essential for newbies but can be fun and/or productive if you take the time to learn them. Above all, they can be very educational--Linux is a great learning platform. There are thousands of free programs available on Linux, but some of them may be missing on your system, depending on your distribution. You can always find the homepage with goggle, and then download and install them.

The entries below do not even pretend to be a full documentation for the command. For each command (tool) described, we try to give an example to illustrate the field of usability of the command. We try to make this example ready to run (self contained) and as useful as possible (we used them exactly for the tasks described). We hope this gets you started. After that, using man command, mozilling http://www.google.com may help to meet your specific requirement.

Linux Advanced Text Processing Tools
Perl
Python
tcl
ruby
C
C++
Assembler
Scheme
FORTRAN
expect
Delphi
Java
Using makefiles
Extra tools
Math Tools
Miscellaneous
Running MySQL