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Some beginner UNIX advice needed...
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I have recently begun to teach myself UNIX on OS X... Not with any particular reason in mind, just something to do really!!
Anyway, I bought a few books and seem to have done OK picking the really basic things up...
After a week or so, I am confident in navigation, file and dir making, permissions, copying, renaming, editing, searching (I have also got a handle on Pico, Vi, emacs, et al). I am no means an expert, but I seem to have the basics down...
I then moved to opening aqua apps with the terminal, I have made a few script and things, set up Pine. Used Telnet and SSH without any real drama...
In fact I love using the UNIX side of OS X... But have reached the end of the beginner books I bought...
Just wondering what everyone would recommend next to learn? and any decent books to compound my knowledge, and teach me a bit more...
Any help appreciated...!
Cheers,
Marc
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Critical Mass Has alot of unix/cammand line articles, which are good. He also does alot of X11 articles. It's worth checking it out.
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I too am delving into UNIX. I have been reading UNIX for Mac OSX by Taylor and Jepsen. What have you been reading/recommend?
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Originally posted by malemutekid:
I too am delving into UNIX. I have been reading UNIX for Mac OSX by Taylor and Jepsen. What have you been reading/recommend?
I began by reading 'Unix For Mac' in the 'Read Less, Learn More' series, by Henry-Stocker Bartlett... it also came with a CD with Fink, Gimp, XonX, etc
Decent enough, but I feal a little confused still, as although it explains things really well, some of the jumps between lessons defy reason!
It covers, basic unix, basic comands such as ls and mv, then making and editing files with pico, emacs, and vi, basic script, perl, php, python, etc etc and then Compiling, x11 and stuff.
It goes from really simple to ultra complex in a short time, and relies a lot on the reader using the 'man' to find out things in depth...
Next, I have just ordered a copy of Learning Unix for Mac OS X by O'Reilly as it also seems pretty good... although looking at the 'critical mass' website, it seems to be full of info! (Cheers Mac Write!)
Peace,
Marc
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Our own MacNN even has a UNIX forum.
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hehe.. this will give you lots of pratice..
install Apple's X11, or compile XFree86 and try to get gnome running on it 
you can use fink to do this
unless you are using lots of X11 apps, this is sort of a useless thing to do
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Originally posted by Ozmodiar:
Our own MacNN even has a UNIX forum.
Yeah, there's a thread over there titled something like "top 10 essential unix commands" or something - I'd copy it in here for you but have no right-click on this windows box (damn crippled machine).
Go check it out, very handy.
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