23. Working with the Mac OS X Command Line
As you learned earlier in the book, Mac OS X is running on top of a version of the UNIX operating system. This means that Mac OS X can use many UNIX applications. It also means you can enter UNIX commands directly in the command-line interface to manipulate your system. In fact, in some situations, using a UNIX command might be the best way you can accomplish a task (such as deleting a rogue file that you can’t delete by dragging it to the Trash).
UNIX is a powerful language/operating system; however, it is also complex, and many of its commands require you to use complicated syntax to get them to work properly. UNIX commands are incomprehensible to most people when they first encounter them, so don’t ...
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