| Unix is no longer someone else's OS. With Mac OS X built on top of it, Unix is becoming a household name, and more and more Mac users are ready to take it on. This book is for them! Based on a popular series of Unix tips, this book promises to deliver what most other Unix guides fail to: comprehensive tutorials and instruction on specific Unix subjects, commands, and projects, not just a handy reference guide. Arranged into 101 mini tutorials in 11 key technology areas, this book provides all the tricks, techniques, and training that you need to understand how the system works and start using it immediately. You will quickly learn the basics to working with the Unix command line as well as work on specific tutorials/exercises, including: browsing and searching the directory file-system; viewing, searching, and processing file content; using text editors; shell scripting; cool commands; and more.
This book is for you if you have a problem to solve or a task to complete. Working at the Unix command line often provides the quickest and easiest solution. Although a modern Unix environment such as Mac OS X provides a graphical method of working, the real power still lies in the Terminal and in typing commands. The Unix command line lets you work with your Mac in ways that are difficult or even impossible graphically, unlocking the hidden workings of Apple's OS and unleashing a wealth of powerful free software. Clicking a button may be an easy way to perform a prepackaged action, but it doesn't give you the expressive power of a set of written commands.
By reading the book, you'll learn Unix through doing. Moreover, you'll learn how to apply Unix to solve real-world problems. Whether you want to search for files, search file content, use regular expressions, mount disks, create user accounts, configure Apache, or do any of 95 other things, you'll find a project that shows you how. |
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