Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger

By Dave Taylor

Beneath Mac OS X Tiger's easy-to-use Aqua interface lies 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 importantly, how to take advantage of both the Mac and Unix interfaces. Readers will learn how to: Launch and configure the Terminal applicationCustomize the shell environmentManage files and directoriesSearch with Spotlight from the command lineEdit and create text files with vi and PicoPerform remote loginsAccess 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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596009151
• ISBN13: 9780596009151
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An essential primer

As a long-time Mac user, Unix was new to me but very exciting once I started tinkering with it. I picked up what I could around the web but knew there were significant holes in my understanding of the fundamentals of Unix. This book was perfect in that it brought both the fundamentals you would get in many Unix books (without being boring) as well as talking about some significant Tiger-specific command line tools like atprint...

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Dave Taylor makes Unix on the Mac accessible, easy to understand, and fun. New languages can be a puzzle. Quite a bit of time can be spent just trying to understand enough so that you can actually start "learning". Unix for Mac OS X Tiger can be read chapter by chapter or randomly after the first few chapters. Thanks for Dave Taylor's easygoing yet complete explanations I "got it" in a weekend. "Got it" for me means that...

very nice OS X book, good way to get involved with UNIX.

OS X and its UNIX are truly amazing. I like easy to read book and I also had assumed that learning UNIX is not necessarily has to be a struggle. This book stood up to my expectations almost perfectly: it is very well written and clearly expressed work. It does not overwhelm with technical details and does not press too much. I also followed an advise in someone's review and purchased Linux and UNIX for a beginner training...

An Excellent Introduction

I am a "Classic" Mac OS "Power User." I was accustomed to the power and flexibility of the Classic Mac OS coupled with various third-party utilities & software. Upon recently acquiring an iMac DV with Tiger installed, I wanted to be able to wield similar power over this new computer, but I saw that in order to do so, I would need to learn Unix, since the various third-party utilities I was using previously would not work...

Unix For The Mac Without Snoring

It's no secret that I rarely review technical books. The big reason for this is that I buy such books to either get a handle on software or hardware issues and tend to only read enough so that I can understand what the real techies are trying to tell me. Sadly, gone are the days of my being a brilliant analyst and designer and only process and architecture are my lot. The arrival a few years ago of a Mac Titanium portable...