
Learning Unix for OS X
Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell
Dave Taylor(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 6. November 2012
Book
233 pages
978-1-4493-3231-0 (ISBN)
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Description
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. Mountain Lion 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.
* Get your Mac to do exactly what you want, when you want
* Make changes to your Mac's filesystem and directories
* Use Unix's find, locate, and grep commands to locate files containing specific information
* Create unique "super-commands" to perform tasks that you specify
* Run multiple Unix programs and processes at the same time
* Install the X Window system and get a quick tour of the best X11 applications
* Learn how to take even greater advantage of Unix on your Mac
* Get your Mac to do exactly what you want, when you want
* Make changes to your Mac's filesystem and directories
* Use Unix's find, locate, and grep commands to locate files containing specific information
* Create unique "super-commands" to perform tasks that you specify
* Run multiple Unix programs and processes at the same time
* Install the X Window system and get a quick tour of the best X11 applications
* Learn how to take even greater advantage of Unix on your Mac
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
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illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4493-3231-0 (9781449332310)
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Dave Taylor is a popular writer, teacher and speaker of business and technology issues. The founder of The Internet Mall and iTrack.com, he's been involved with UNIX and the Internet since 1980, having created the popular Elm Mail System. He's also been a Mac fan since the year it was released. Once a Research Scientist at HP Laboratories and Senior Reviews Editor of SunWorld magazine, Taylor has contributed software to the official 4.4 release of Berkeley Unix (BSD). His programs are found in all versions of Linux and other popular Unix variants.