The MAC OS X command line : Unix under the hood / Kirk McElhearn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McElhearn, Kirk.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macintosh (Computer)--Programming.

Macintosh (Computer).

Operating systems (Computers).

Mac OS.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Sybex, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Mac command line offers a faster, easier way to accomplish many tasks. It's also the medium for many commands that aren't accessible using the GUI. The Mac OS X Command Line is a clear, concise, tutorial-style introduction to all the major functionality provided by the command line. It's also packed with information the experienced users need, including little-known shortcuts and several chapters devoted to advanced topics. This is a book to get you started, but also a book you won't soon outgrow.

Contents:

The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Contents at a Glance; See What's on the Command Line; Contents; Introduction; Mac OS X and FreeBSD; Nothing but Text; Who this Book Is For; Using this Book; What this Book Isn't; Typographical Conventions; System Requirements; Chapter 1: A Guided Tour of the Command Line; Opening Terminal; Typing Your First Command; Summing Up; Chapter 2: Using Terminal; What Is Terminal?; Setting Up Terminal; Terminal Preferences; Working with Terminal Windows; Using; Files; Using a Different Terminal; Summing Up

Interlude 1: Command Syntax Chapter 3: Getting Help while in Terminal; Finding Out What a Command Does with; Using man Pages; Summing Up; Interlude 2: Names and Paths; Chapter 4: Navigating the File System; About the Mac OS X File System; Finding Where You Are with; Changing Directories with; Summing Up; Interlude 3: Redirecting Input and Output; Chapter 5: Working with Files and Directories; Copying Files with; Moving Files and Directories with; Creating Directories with; Removing Directories with; Removing Files with; Aliases and Links; Copying Directories with; Summing Up

Interlude 4: Cloning Your Mac OS X Startup Volume Chapter 6: Saving Time on the Command Line; Using Filename Completion; Using Command Completion; Using Command History; Keyboard Shortcuts in Terminal; Summing Up; Interlude 5: The Versatile open Command; Chapter 7: Finding Files, Directories, and Everything Else; Finding Files in Mac OS X; Finding Files with; Finding Anything with; Finding File Contents with; Summing Up; Interlude 6: Wildcards and Globbing; The *Wildcard; The ? Wildcard; The [ ] Wildcard; The { } Characters; Testing Wildcards; Escaping Wildcards; Wildcard Summary

Chapter 8: Viewing Files Finding Out What Kind of Files You Have with; Viewing Files with cat; Viewing the Beginning of a File with head; Viewing the End of a File with tail; Viewing Files with less; Summing Up; Chapter 9: Editing Text; Counting Words, Lines, and Characters with wc; Sorting Lines with sort; Removing Repeated Lines with uniq; Comparing Files with diff; Replacing Characters with tr; Formatting Files with fmt; Editing Text with sed; Text Editors; Editing Text with Pico; Editing Text with vi; Editing Text with Emacs; Summing Up; Chapter 10: Printing; About Printing with Mac OS X

Printing Files with lpChecking the Printer Queue with lpq; Canceling Print Jobs with cancel; Managing Printers from the Command Line; Printing from Terminal; Summing Up; Chapter 11: Compressing, Decompressing, and Archiving Files; About Compressed Files; Compressing Files with gzip; Compressing Files with bzip2; Creating Archives with tar; Managing Disk Image Archives with hdiutil; Summing Up; Chapter 12: Working with Users, Groups, and Permissions; About Users; Creating User Accounts; About Groups; About Permissions; Changing the Owner of a File; Changing File Permissions

Setting a Directory's Sticky Bit

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-64991-7

9786610649914

0-470-11385-5

OCLC:

228145031