Book 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. Apple's latest OS, El Capitan, 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.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Why Use Unix?
- 2. Using the Terminal
- 3. Exploring the Filesystem
- 4. File Management
- 5. Finding Files and Information
- 6. Redirecting I/O
- 7. Multitasking
- 8. Taking Unix Online
- 9. Of Windows and X11
- 10. Where to Go from Here
- Index
Product information
- Title: Learning Unix for OS X, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2016
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491939987
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