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A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users by Mark G. Sobell, Peter Seebach

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Brief Contents

Contents

Preface

1 Welcome to Mac OS X

Part I The Mac OS X Operating System

2 Getting Started

3 The Mac OS X Utilities

4 The Mac OS X Filesystem

5 The Shell

Part II The Editors

6 The vim Editor

7 The emacs Editor

Part III The Shells

8 The Bourne Again Shell

9 The TC Shell

Part IV Networking and Maintenance

10 Networking and the Internet

11 System Maintenance

Part V Programming Tools

12 Programming Tools

13 Programming the Bourne Again Shell

14 The awk Pattern Processing Language

15 The sed Editor

Part VI Command Reference

Command Reference

Part VII Appendixes

A Regular Expressions

B Help

C Mac OS X for UNIX Users

Glossary

Index

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