A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users

A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users

<P> <B>The Most Useful UNIX Guide for Mac OS X Users <I>Ever,</I> with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples!</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Beneath Mac OS<SUP></SUP> X's stunning graphical user interface (GUI) is the most powerful operating system ever created: UNIX<SUP></SUP>. With unmatched clarity and insight, this book explains UNIX for the Mac OS X user€"giving you total control over your system, so you can get more done, faster. Building on Mark Sobell's highly praised <I>A Practical Guide to the UNIX System,</I> it delivers comprehensive guidance on the UNIX command line tools every user, administrator, and developer needs to master€“together with the world's best day-to-day UNIX reference.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This book is packed with hundreds of high-quality examples. From networking and system utilities to shells and programming, this is UNIX from the ground up€"both the "whys" and the "hows"€"for every Mac user. You'll understand the relationships between GUI tools and their command line counterparts. Need instant answers? Don't bother with confusing online "manual pages": rely on this book's example-rich, quick-access, 236-page command reference!</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Don't settle for just any UNIX guidebook. Get one focused on your specific needs as a Mac user!</B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I>A Practical Guide to UNIX<SUP></SUP> for Mac OS<SUP></SUP> X Users</I> </B> is the most useful, comprehensive UNIX tutorial and reference for Mac OS X and is <I>the only book that delivers</I> </P> <UL> <LI>Better, more realistic examples covering tasks you'll actually need to perform</LI> <LI>Deeper insight, based on the authors' immense knowledge of every UNIX and OS X nook and cranny</LI> <LI>Practical guidance for experienced UNIX users moving to Mac OS X</LI> <LI>Exclusive discussions of Mac-only utilities, including <B>plutil</B>, <B>ditto</B>, <B>nidump</B>, <B>otool</B>, <B>launchctl</B>, <B>diskutil</B>, <B>GetFileInfo</B>, and <B>SetFile</B> </LI> <LI>Techniques for implementing secure communications with <B>ssh</B> and <B>scp</B>€"plus dozens of tips for making your OS X system more secure</LI> <LI>Expert guidance on basic and advanced shell programming with <B>bash</B> and <B>tcsh</B> </LI> <LI>Tips and tricks for using the shell interactively from the command line</LI> <LI>Thorough guides to <B>vi</B> and <B>emacs</B> designed to help you get productive fast, and maximize your editing efficiency</LI> <LI>In-depth coverage of the Mac OS X filesystem and access permissions, including extended attributes and Access Control Lists (ACLs)</LI> <LI>A comprehensive UNIX glossary</LI> <LI>Dozens of exercises to help you practice and gain confidence</LI> <LI>And much more, including a superior introduction to UNIX programming tools such as <B>awk</B>, <B>sed</B>, <B>otool</B>, <B>make</B>, <B>gcc</B>, <B>gdb</B>, and CVS</LI> </UL>