November 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
24h 11m
English
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How This Book Is Organized
There are three essential parts to this book, with the first part covering the shells and Unix commands found in Mac OS X Tiger. The two remaining parts cover text and text processing and include chapters on managing your Mac OS X system. The parts and chapters of this book are defined as follows:
- Part I, Commands and Shells
This part of the book introduces you to the basic concepts of networking and system administration, including coverage of Directory Services.
- Chapter 1, Introduction\
This chapter provides you with a quick introduction to the Unix side of Mac OS X.
- Chapter 2, Unix Command Reference
This chapter lists descriptions and usage terms for over 300 of the Unix commands found in Mac OS X. The commands have been painstakingly run and verified against the manpages for accuracy; this is the most complete and accurate Mac-based Unix command reference in print.
- Chapter 3, Using the Terminal
With Mac OS X, you’ll normally use one way to gain access to the Unix core: the Terminal application. This chapter introduces you to the Terminal application and shows you how to issue commands and tweak its settings.
- Chapter 4, Shell Overview
This chapter provides a quick overview of the differences between bash, Mac OS X Panther’s default shell, and tcsh, the default shell for earlier versions of Mac OS X.
- Chapter 5, bash: The Bourne-Again Shell
This chapter provides a quick overview of the bashshell, along with a listing of its built-in commands for shell ...
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