[jrramsey]

Can anyone point me in the right direction on where I can learn more about the syntax and language used in terminal app? I don't need to be a high power user, but would like some basic rudimentary understanding...directories, structures, permissions, what's bootable & not...

I know it's based on UNIX but it seems there are many different kernels with different languages/syntax.

Thanks,

[Terri]

The book that I have found the most useful has been "The Visual Quick Start Guide for UNIX."

Actually I really like all the Visual Quick Start Guides and have bought a bunch of them for reference.

[Millennium]

O'Reilly Press has been one of the most reputable publishers of Unix books (and books on programming) for many years. They've also started to sort of co-opt OSX into the fold, what with its Unix heritage and all.

I believe they have a book specifically geared for OSX users, called "Learning the Mac OS X Terminal" or something like that. Unfortunately their site appears to be down at the moment, so I can't look it up right now, but they have many OSX books that are worth looking into.

http://www.oreilly.com

[jrramsey]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried looking up that title in Amazon and B&N but could not find it. Any suggestions where I could pick it up?

[piracy]

http://beta.peachpit.com/books/catalog/K5852.html

In my opinion, though, I strongly recommend "Learning UNIX for Mac OS X":

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx2/

(And later, Mac OS X for UNIX Geeks: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/)

And for some downloadable items:

See Rob Griffman's Terminal Basics:
http://homepage.mac.com/rgriff/files/TerminalBasics.pdf

And, the UNIX section of Rob Griffman's OS X Guidebook:
http://www.cocoatech.com/~macosxhint...uide2_11hq.pdf

[Brooks Seymore]

Originally posted by Millennium:
I believe they have a book specifically geared for OSX users, called "Learning the Mac OS X Terminal" or something like that. Unfortunately their site appears to be down at the moment, so I can't look it up right now, but they have many OSX books that are worth looking into.

Actually, its called Learning Unix for Mac OS X by Dave Taylor and Brian Jepson. The link takes you to its page at Amazon.

B.

[Brooks Seymore]

Originally posted by piracy:


And for some downloadable items:

See Rob Griffman's Terminal Basics:
http://homepage.mac.com/rgriff/files/TerminalBasics.pdf

And, the UNIX section of Rob Griffman's OS X Guidebook:
http://www.cocoatech.com/~macosxhint...uide2_11hq.pdf

Another worthwhile article is "A Mac User's Guide to the Unix Command Line, Part 1" from TidBITS #657:
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=07003.

B.

[jrramsey]

Thanks. All of these are great suggestions. I just finished reading the article in TidBITS and have ordered the book "Learning Unix for Mac OS X".

Can't wait to get started...but I will be careful.