[X-Unix] Unix Reference Cards

[William H. Magill]

On 27 May, 2005, at 20:38, PoolMouse wrote:
>
> where does one get a clifnote on sed/awk/make?

They are called "Reference cards" or "Quick References,"
and are much more common that people realize. They used to be
considered a standard part of the Documentation Set.

Here's a couple of lists of some available as PDFs to download:

http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/quickrefs.htm
http://ls11-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/people/hermes/refs.html

Ones for awk, sed and make can be found here.
http://www-cs.canisius.edu/REFCARDS/

These are not in classic reference card format, but were written
by the school.

Just google for "unix reference cards" and you'll find a whole bunch.

I have some very old ones for REAL Unix(r) (circa 1980) ...
Version 5 as I recall (Yes, version 5, which is not System V,
and which is actually older than version 3 which is the root
of the BSD and System V trees.)

At least one of them was published by ATT. Not obvious where
the others came from.

I know that the folks who publish Linux Journal have published
"card" for the various shells over the years.  The shell cards
were 8 1/2 X 11 punched for insertion into a notebook.

Those style cards were quite common for all OS versions back
in those days. They were typically 3 or 4 fold pages, about
4 inches x 8 inches.

I just got a couple of new ones for HTML/CSS published by visibone.com


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