Index
Symbols
- ! character, Further Refinements to find, sftp: ftp to secure sites
- # (hash), Conventions Used in This Book, The Shell Prompt, Changing the Command Prompt
- $ (dollar sign), Conventions Used in This Book, Changing the Command Prompt, Changing the Command Prompt, vi Basics, Working with Regular Expressions
- $LOGNAME environment variable, ps
- & character, Running a Command in the Background, Differences Between OS X and X11, The man Command
- () (parentheses), Further Refinements to find
- * (asterisk), Batch Renames and Extracting File Lists, Trying Out the ls Command, File and Directory Wildcards, Working with Regular Expressions
- + operator, Working with Regular Expressions
- - (dash), Syntax of a Unix Command, File Permissions
- . (dot), Shell Configuration Settings, The All-Powerful ls Command, Trying Out the ls Command
- .. (dot dot), Relative pathnames up, The All-Powerful ls Command, Copying Files
- .. shortcut, A Simple Guided (Unix) Tour, The All-Powerful ls Command
- / (forward slash), Folders or Directories?, Your Home Directory, Calculating Available Disk Space, File and Directory Names
- ; (semicolon), Running a Command in the Background
- < operator, Standard Input and Standard Output
- = operator, Setting Permissions with chmod
- > operator, Using AppleScript to Manipulate the Terminal, Standard Input and Standard Output-cat
- >> operator, cat
- ? (question mark), File and Directory Wildcards, Working with Regular Expressions
- @ (ampersand), Trying Out the ls Command
- [] (brackets), File and Directory Wildcards ...
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