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relative os X newbie...questions about unix
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
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what's up all. i've been using os X for the last 2 months or so and i love it, and lately i've been getting interested in learning about the terminal and unix commands...right now the only one i know is top -d  anyone care to point me towards a good website with some reading i can do about this stuff?
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~nate
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: London, UK
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Best solution may be to get a book. There are plenty around.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Also, use the UNIX forum.
Mike
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
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(Last edited by kovacs; May 30, 2003 at 02:40 PM.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Sep 2001
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My best suggestion: Learning Unix for Mac OS X. Great book, really helped me elevate my level of nerdiness with learning Unix. I knew nothing about it, and now I'm pretty handy with it after reading this book. 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally posted by MindFad:
My best suggestion: Learning Unix for Mac OS X. Great book, really helped me elevate my level of nerdiness with learning Unix. I knew nothing about it, and now I'm pretty handy with it after reading this book.
Was just about to recommend the same book!!
I would definately get that book, but the best way is just to have a go at using a few tools.
For example I always use the Unix command line ftp application.
Goodluck, Edwin
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
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get one of those Nutshell books about Unix. I used Linux in a Nutshell a few years back to get my CLI background.
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
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I learned in linux by looking in the dirs. that I new had the CLI apps in them, then I would type man *** to find out what the command was.
*** being what ever the app i saw.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2002
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apropos "some topic you want to learn
about"
will be a good start for example if you
want to know how to kill processes
apropos "kill"
you want to know about virtual memory
apropos "virtual memory"
if you want to know about the mac os x
booting process
apropos "boot"
etc. you can learn lot
Have fun
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Mar 2000
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If you want to do it the hard way, open a bash shell ('bash', enter), and hit tab two times and type in y, voila, lots of commands.
Use 'man <command>' to open the manual pages for said command, eg 'man top'.
(I suppose this is exactly what MacManMikeOSX said)
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