Learn how to unleash your inner Unix geek Version 3 2 1 updated December 23 2022 This book introduces you to the Mac s command line environment teaching you how to use the Terminal utility to accomplish useful interesting tasks that are either difficult or impossible to do in the graphical interface n If you ve ever thought you should learn to use the Unix command line that underlies macOS or felt at sea when typing commands into Terminal Joe Kissell is here to help With this 228 page book you ll become comfortable working on the Mac s command line starting with the fundamentals and adding more advanced topics as your knowledge increases Now includes complete coverage of Monterey Big Sur Catalina and zsh Joe includes 66 real life recipes for tasks that are best done from the command line as well as directions for working with permissions carrying out grep based searches creating shell scripts and installing Unix software The book begins by teaching you these core concepts The differences among Unix a command line a shell and Terminal Exactly how commands arguments and flags work The basics of Terminal s interface and how to customize it Next it s on to the command line where you ll learn How to navigate your Mac s directory structure Basic file management creating copying moving renaming opening viewing and deleting files Creating symbolic links The types of command line programs How to start and stop a command line program How to edit a text file in nano How to customize your prompt and other shell defaults The importance of your PATH and how to change it if you need to How to get help Joe goes way beyond telling you to read the man pages You ll extend your skills as you discover how to Create basic shell scripts to automate repetitive tasks Make shell scripts that have variables user input conditional statements loops and math See which programs are running and what system resources they re consuming Quit programs that refuse to quit normally Enable the command line to interact with the Finder Control another Mac via its command line with ssh Understand and change an item s permissions owner and group Run commands as the root user using sudo Handle output with pipe or redirect or

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