Examplex is a collection of examples. The examples collected so far are for a set
of Unix commands under 4.2BSD. Examplex is for:
- Unix beginners who need to see simple examples of basic commands such as pwd, cd, cp, login, etc.
- Unix users who know a command will do a certain thing but don't remember exactly how to make the keyin.
- People who simply want to browse, looking for new Unix techniques (see csh and sh).
Note that your flavor of Unix might be a little different from 4.2BSD (some would say a lot different!) but the most powerful tools such as vi, ex, awk, sed and the
grep family all ought to be pretty much the same.
See also termcap for a pretty good list of capability codes, and tr for a complete list of the ASCII characters, their names, and decimal, octal and hex values.
This collection was made in the dim dark past, from a long period of me lurking in Usenet and struggling to learn Unix myself. Sometimes I just saw a nugget and stashed it as an example (see lex, and ptx). Many of the (unknowing) contributors have moved on, so their mail addresses probably won't work. Too bad.
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