Command line

In Mac OS X, the command line is alive and well—but it speaks Unix, not DOS. You get to it by opening Terminal, which is described in a free online appendix to this book called “Terminal Crash Course.” It awaits you on this book’s “Missing CD” at www.missingmanuals.com.

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