 Now I found something very fascinating that I think many of you will be interested in and it is this book Unix for People. This is actually a very old book. I shouldn't say very old book. I want to say it was made back in the 80s. I think it was 84 okay Now this is basically a normies guide to using Unix Now of course all of this will apply to Linux. There might be some changes over the years But it's actually I you know I sort of leaf through this book and it is fascinating I mean it's it's nearly we just opened up to the the section on EQ in if you want to format You know math equations in your graph documents stuff like that So I just found this very fascinating because the technology content the good Technology content on this channel could probably be summed up in a little textbook like this. It's very nice Just to show you what they kind of and again This is for someone who basically has never used the computer for before this book and it's it's a pretty nice introduction So they talk about things like using editing files using the visual editor. That is VI. That's basically VIM So they teach you how to use VIM. They teach you how to use the MS macros and Roth I've actually actually done a series of videos on the MS macros. You can look up graph Luke Smith and they'll come up And so that's like, you know formatting documents and things like that And all the things you really I don't know. Let's just get into it. It's an interesting book You know and it's quirky. They have like drawings and stuff like that. I'll go over some of them so Unix is so complicated the secretaries have to teach the engineers how to use it, you know anyway So let's get into this At the very beginning again This is for people who have like never logged on to a computer again But look, hey, look this old lady can use a Unix if she can do it She she's formatting documents in Roth right now. Check out this base black guy with a command line based Okay, and there's your average Luke Smith viewer down here. Anyway, so let's just get into it. Okay, so Oh, and here's they have these cutely cutely little Diagrams or art stuff all over the place Rhett hungry for immortality decides to write his autobiography on the text processor And you can see he's using like Roth macros and stuff like that. All right, so at the very beginning, you know It's just like logging on. I'll skip through some of this I'm gonna skip through basically all the book but just to give you an idea They have like pretty simple, you know, how to use basic commands. So they have like get your date Get who who's on the system? I mean, these are still commands They do have some commands that I don't think exist anymore. For example, there's this command look And this is for like spell checking I guess like you put in you feed a word to it and it gives you all the words that look like it in the dictionary or something Like that or contain it. So, you know, it's a way of back in the old days It's a way of checking for you know, if you're spelling things correctly, you know change your password stuff like this So this is like basic logging on stuff, but they pretty quickly Get you to making files and the way they teach you to make files is basically just using vi, right Vim, okay? That's the way you see a lot of people on my channel whenever I do a tutorial on something and I I'll use Vim to open like a File, you know these soy devs. They'll be like, no, you can't use them. That's too complicated. I can't understand Please use nano. No one's gonna watch this. Well, they're wrong and also Vim is like retardedly easy I don't know what's wrong with you. Anyway, so they go through very basic stuff they tell you you know use a to go into a panda mode then you type stuff and You know that they go through like a page of how do you get out of the typing mode? Well, you press escape And actually here's what I like How do you how do you exit Vim? Not that stupid way? They teach you or vi not that stupid way they teach you in VimTutor where it's like colon Q exclamation point enter now just type capital Z capital Z in normal mode and you exit now I actually don't think I mean this again is for vi. I don't think this actually works on modern vi I seem to remember it not but it definitely works on Vim. That's how I always exit, you know Vim There's no I it's so silly like dude think about how much I always have to nag people on this That is the easiest thing to do that doing this to exit that is so I don't know It's too many to your pliers two hands. It's just a waste. Don't do it Anyway, so they go through more basic. I want to say isn't there some little Like art thing. Oh, yeah, so here is I know we make fun of people who always talk about how they can't exit Vim But this is the Harry Houdini escape award is given to blank this day of blank and the year blank to blank for Distinguished and miraculous escapes executed from the append mode more or less, you know exiting insert mode or Exiting Vim so whatever, you know people people have always made jokes about how difficult it is to exit Vim So basic stuff, you know LS the show files and you know, they go through some other things on the shell Let's see, you know, I think they have yeah, like hjkl moving around in Vim pretty quickly. Oh Yeah, they tell you more Vim commands. So here's you know this this That dog catchers back now There's a character I'd like to replace because he's talking he's pressing R get it, you know replace a character in Vim Wow Wow guys upvote this if you know what that's about that's that's hilarious So eventually let's get to the good stuff. All right, so they get to in rough now If you don't know what this is you should absolutely know what this stuff is because a lot of people use markup You know or markdown or or or law tech or something to format documents in case you don't know There is in the Unix operating system including on Linux on Linux. It's called g-raw instead of in rough But there is a built-in document formatting system that takes text files and makes PDFs printable documents and the post-grip documents however you want it and the basically this book is probably Probably 30% learning how to format documents and do stuff like that, which is actually, you know a useful thing to be able to Do and in a rough, of course rough is just like so minimal It runs immediately they show you how to do basic stuff. I'm gonna flip I think they show you an example of what it looks like just so you guys can get an idea if you don't I Probably skipped right by it probably skipped right by it. Give me give me a second Yeah, we know who you you guys know we don't do I probably skip right by twice. Oh, no here it is Okay, so this is what it looks like so you make a little document like this and all these commands are things like Oh, this is like center text or you know make Spaces between paragraphs or stuff like that. So an input file like this Formats into something like this where you have centering you have underlines and stuff like that actually I think in modern I think in modern rough UL actually, I mean obviously it originally was underline. I think nowadays it will actually Italis or italicized text or maybe that might be a difference between in rough and What is it trough t-roff or whatever, but they'll get into that later So basic stuff removing files moving files copying files all this basic stuff that I think most people Sort of get a hankering not a hankering of an inkling of Just basic stuff and they list out all the different things I propose cat Diction what is that reads through the file name and notes instances of a questionable diction? That's it I've never heard of that one. So there's some of these that don't exist anymore, but like man LPR is still around LPR is to print something out on your physical printer Or line printer, I guess back in the old days, whatever Suggest is doesn't exist anymore suggests replacements for a target word. So a lot of this stuff is is sort of like Like spell checking and stuff. I mean Vim nowadays just has a spell checker built into it, but okay So just a little overview other things. Let's let's skip ahead. Let's skip ahead. Oh, yeah Here's here's another little cartoon. We got to read meet the command interpreters today our distinguished guests discuss the meaning of LS okay, so by command mode says Move right and substitute in rough says if you threw in a dot it'd be a single space So, you know, it's just the LS means something different everywhere in the shell It means list files and then in a pin mode. It's just typing stuff out. All right So that's just this QC boomer humor. I mean, and none of this stuff is actually funny, of course That would totally destroy the purpose, but you get into more advanced of them stuff. Let's actually skip to It's the MS macros because I think yeah, so the MS macros are more advanced And I think they give you an example of this at the end of the chapter. Hold on So these are like more advanced formatting in a Roth Come on. I should have like bookmarked all of these that would have made this quicker I just sort of made okay, so here it is. So MS macros are more advanced You know, you can set more specific stuff as to how you want a document formatted You know, you got little paragraph rules and so for example all this Will be formatted into a document that looks something like this right so you have a title you have Sections that are numbered with subsections. You have these margins that you all set You have things like footnotes and you know, you have a little footer down here All this kind of stuff is done automatically again This is what like law tech would do or if you have something fancy or something Bloated am I right like pandock, which just like auto converts the stuff things through law tech um You can do all of this kind of stuff just with rough and it's a lot simpler and I don't know nicer It might like the syntax of it might be oh, that's counterintuitive. That looks scary But you know, that's how it is get over it And I think they also do stuff I'm gonna skip way ahead because a lot of the stuff is like oh reg X is replacing stuff Basic kind of command line stuff. I don't think they really do like shell scripting like You know like if this then do that kind of things But they have a lot of you know, we've got vim options vim settings ignore case Some of these I don't even know about this magic. Does that exist? I don't even know. I've never used most of these ignore case that that at least is Yeah, anyway Let's let's see. Let's see. What else is there in here? So in general like the whole book is honestly a pretty good introduction Like the the thing I like about it is that it's it's targeted to like doing specific like specific normie things like normies They just want to get their documents printed out. They just want to do this and that and that's what it focuses on And as as you go further on Oh, yeah, they do so they They start on in rough, but they start doing t-roff where you can like, you know It's for more advanced printers every printer nowadays can do this But you know back in the day it was a weird thing to be able to print like, you know, you had to have a Phototype setter or something like that. I forget what it's I'm not a boomer. I don't know But trough is more advanced that can do stuff like this You can have bolding and and other things actually. Yeah, I think trough is the one where yeah Underlines become italics and stuff like that. So Aside from that. Oh, it shows you how to make macros and things And then at the very end. Oh, yeah, so they have things like refer. I've done a video on refer. It's how you Make bibliographies and roff. So bibliographies. It's just like using a bib law tech and law tech They can automatically do bibliographies for you. For example, you have a A bibliography file that has little paragraphs that look like this where you embed like, oh, here's an author Here's a title. Here's all the other information about it And then you can actually cite this using refer from your document and it automatically formats things In in the proper way that it's supposed to I think Refer looking I look sort of at this before I think refer is actually a lot more advanced now than it was here But so that's what your bibliography looks like and you can format it automatically Into something like this and of course, I don't think they actually mentioned like in-text citations But you definitely can do that in modern refer. I don't know if you can back here Table for making tables all this kind of stuff all this kind of stuff is like built in again too rough And thereby into the unix operating system Including of course linux and of course nowadays people have a bajillion other programs or redundant programs that do exactly The same thing built on top Of linux, but here's eq in i've done a video on this as well. This is like the math formatter So you can like this stuff creates an advanced equation or something like that And this is how you format math stuff and I don't know stuff like that people always complain Nowadays in my videos you can of course change the font But people always complain about the default font of eq in they're just so used to la tech la tech You know, it does the especially the math stuff actually does look very good out of the box But you can still do this stuff in a grof and you can you can Play around with the fonts and stuff like that if you really want either way like that's basically the book I just found it really interesting because first off whenever I know I was talking mostly about the rough stuff Because it legitimately is difficult to find Documentation on rough nowadays. It's like it's a program that's not really used that much and I actually use it for basic documents When I make something I usually put it in rough. So it's nice to have Obviously this covers the ms macros. I've sort of moved on to the mom macros. I still use ms, but Either way, this is just an interesting book a look at the past Yeah, I don't know. I'm glad I found it Just a nice and it's still in mint condition. I'm not gonna mess it up. So yep That's unix for people unix for normies. That's what it would be called in 2021