November 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
24h 11m
English
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It’s for those who want to get at the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X that this book is designed. Previous editions of Mac OS X in a Nutshell have been thick with chapters on System Preference panels, running Classic, and using the Finder and the Desktop. There are many more appropriate titles for this type of information, such as the Missing Manual series (O’Reilly/Pogue Press) or the Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide (O’Reilly). With Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell, we’ve come back to the Unix roots, more closely aligning with our ancestors, Unix in a Nutshell and Linux in a Nutshell.
The path to Unix on Mac OS X starts with the Terminal application . In Chapter 3, you’ll find details on what for Unix fans is the most used application on their system. Even if you’ve been using Terminal for years, take a look to see what tidbits of configurability you might have missed.
Once in the Terminal, your login shell is your interface to your system. Chapter 4 gives a crash course in the basics of shell interaction and compares bash , the default shell for Mac OS X Tiger, with tcsh, the shell for the earliest versions of Mac OS X. Although both shells have much the same functionality, there can be big differences between how they approach different tasks. You should be familiar with these differences.
It’s not surprising that bash is the default shell under Mac OS X. The bash shell has become a standard in the industry with its inclusion on almost every Linux distribution. It’s also ...
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