Beneath Mac OS X Tiger's easy-to-use Aqua interface lays a powerful Unix engine. Mac users know that Unix is at their fingertips, if only they knew how to access it. "Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger" provides Mac users with a user-friendly tour of the Unix world concealed beneath Mac OS X's hood and shows how to make the most use of the command-line tools. Thoroughly revised and updated for Mac OS X Tiger, this new edition introduces Mac users to the Terminal application and shows you how to navigate the command interface, explore hundreds of Unix applications that come with the Mac, and-most important-how to take advantage of both the Mac and Unix interfaces. Readers will learn how to: Launch and configure the Terminal application; Customize the shell environment; Manage files and directories; Search with Spotlight from the command line; Edit and create text files with vi and Pico; Perform remote logins; and Access Internet functions, and much more. "Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger" is a clear, concise introduction to what you need to know to learn the basics of Unix on Tiger.
If you want to master the command-line, this gentle guide to using Unix on Mac OS X Tiger is well worth its cover price.
- ISBN10 0596553048
- ISBN13 9780596553043
- Publish Date 2 June 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint O'Reilly Media
- Edition 4th Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 284
- Language English