Learning Unix for OS X: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell

Learning Unix for OS X: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell
ISBN-10
1449332293
ISBN-13
9781449332297
Series
Learning Unix for OS X
Category
Computers
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2012-09-19
Publisher
"O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Author
Dave Taylor

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

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