Learning Unix for OS X / Dave Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Dave, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

UNIX (Computer file).

Mac OS.

Operating systems (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Learning Unix for OS X : going deep with the terminal and shell

Place of Publication:

Beijing, [China] : O'Reilly, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Think your Mac is powerful now? Author Dave Taylor shows you how to get much more from your system by tapping into Unix, the robust operating system concealed beneath OS X’s beautiful user interface. Apple's latest OS, El Capitan, puts more than a thousand Unix commands at your fingertips—for finding and managing files, remotely accessing your Mac from other computers, and using a variety of freely downloadable open source applications. Take a friendly tour of the Unix command line and 50 of the most useful utilities, and quickly learn how to gain real control over your Mac.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Table of Contents

Preface

Who This Book Is For

Who This Book Isn't For

A Brief History of Unix

Versions of Unix

Interfaces to Unix

How This Book Is Organized

Conventions Used in This Book

Using Code Examples

Safari® Books Online

How to Contact Us

The Evolution of This Book

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Why Use Unix?

The Power of Unix

Batch Renames and Extracting File Lists

Finding Hidden Files

Folders or Directories?

Thousands of Free Applications

Power Internet Connections

Commands Included with Unix

Displaying All Unix Commands

The 10 Most Common Unix Commands

A Simple Guided (Unix) Tour

Chapter 2. Using the Terminal

Launching the Terminal

Syntax of a Unix Command

Exercise: Entering a Few Commands

Types of Commands

Changing the Terminal's Preferences

Features of the Terminal

Customizing Your Terminal Session

Setting the Terminal's Title

Using AppleScript to Manipulate the Terminal

Working with .terminal Files

Working with the Terminal

The Shell Prompt

Entering a Command

Recalling Previous Commands

Completing File and Directory Names

Running Multiple Commands on the Command Line

Correcting a Command

Ending Your Session

Problem Checklist

Customizing the Shell Environment

Picking a Login Shell

Changing the Command Prompt

Advanced Shell Customization

Shell Configuration Settings

Creating Aliases

The Unresponsive Terminal

Chapter 3. Exploring the Filesystem

The OS X Filesystem

Your Home Directory

Your Working Directory

The Directory Tree

Absolute Pathnames

Relative Pathnames

Changing Your Working Directory

Files in the Directory Tree

Listing Files and Directories

The All-Powerful ls Command

Trying Out the ls Command

Using the -l Option.

File Permissions

Calculating File Size and Disk Space

Calculating Available Disk Space

Exercise: Exploring the Filesystem

Protecting and Sharing Files

File Access Permissions

Setting Permissions with chmod

Changing the Group and Owner

Changing Your Password

Superuser Privileges with sudo

Exploring External Volumes

Chapter 4. File Management

File and Directory Names

File and Directory Wildcards

Looking Inside Files

cat

less

grep

Creating and Editing Files

Text Editors and Word Processors

The vi Text Editor

vi Basics

A Simpler vi Alternative: Pico

The More Complex Option: Emacs

Managing Files

Creating Directories with mkdir

Copying Files

Renaming and Moving Files with mv

Removing Files and Directories

Working with Links

Compressing and Archiving Files

Files on Other Operating Systems

Chapter 5. Finding Files and Information

Searching Inside Files with the grep Command

Useful grep Options

Working with Regular Expressions

Finding Files with locate

Fast Filename Search with locate

Using find to Explore Your Filesystem

Matching by File Size

Exploring find Permission Strings

Using find to Identify Recently Changed Files

find's Faithful Sidekick: xargs

Further Refinements to find

Shining a Light on Spotlight

Listing Spotlight Metadata with mdls

Finding Files with mdfind

Making Spotlight Useful

Chapter 6. Redirecting I/O

Standard Input and Standard Output

Putting Text in a File

Pipes and Filters

wc

tr

head and tail

sort

uniq

Piping Output to a Pager

Printing

The Unix Way

Chapter 7. Multitasking

Running a Command in the Background

Checking on a Process

ps

top

Canceling a Process

kill

killall

Launching GUI Applications

open.

Useful Starting Options for Use with open

Making open More Useful

Chapter 8. Taking Unix Online

Remote Logins

Web Access

Remote Access to Other Unix Systems

Transferring Files

scp and rcp

FTP

Easy Shortcuts with New Remote Connection

Chapter 9. Of Windows and X11

X11

Using X11

Differences Between OS X and X11

Customizing X11

GIMP, the X11 Graphics Editor

Chapter 10. Where to Go from Here

Documentation

The man Command

Documentation on the Internet

Books

Customizing Your Unix Experience

Shell Aliases and Functions

Programming

Perl, Python, and Ruby

C and C++

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781491939932

1491939931

9781491939970

1491939974

9781491939956

1491939958

OCLC:

1027179216