A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users
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A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users
ISBN: 0131863339
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 234
Pages: 234
Authors: Mark G. Sobell, Peter Seebach
- A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Praise for Mark Sobell s Books
- Preface
- Features of This Book
- Contents
- Supplements
- Thanks from Mark G. Sobell
- Chapter 1. Welcome to Mac OS X
- The Heritage of Mac OS X: UNIX
- The Open Source Connection
- Overview of Mac OS X
- Additional Features of Mac OS X
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Part I: The Mac OS X Operating System
- Chapter 2. Getting Started
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Logging In
- Curbing Your Power: SuperuserrootAdministrator Access
- Working with the Shell
- Useful Graphical Tools
- Getting the Facts: Where to Find Documentation
- More About Logging In
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 3. The Mac OS X Utilities
- Special Characters
- Basic Utilities
- Working with Files
- Three More Utilities
- Compressing and Archiving Files
- Locating Commands
- Obtaining User and System Information
- Communicating with Other Users
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 4. The Mac OS X Filesystem
- The Hierarchical Filesystem
- Directory Files and Ordinary Files
- Pathnames
- Directory Commands
- Filesystems
- Access Permissions
- Extended Attributes
- Types of Files
- Links
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 5. The Shell
- The Command Line
- Standard Input and Standard Output
- Running a Program in the Background
- Filename GenerationPathname Expansion
- Builtins
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Part II: The Editors
- Chapter 6. The vim Editor
- History
- Tutorial: Creating and Editing a File with vim
- The compatible Parameter
- Introduction to vim Features
- Command Mode: Moving the Cursor
- Input Mode
- Command Mode: Deleting and Changing Text
- Searching and Substituting
- Miscellaneous Commands
- Yank, Put, and Delete Commands
- Reading and Writing Files
- Setting Parameters
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- Units of Measure
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 7. The emacs Editor
- History
- Tutorial: Getting Started with emacs
- Basic Editing Commands
- Online Help
- Advanced Editing
- Language-Sensitive Editing
- More Information
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Part III: The Shells
- Chapter 8. The Bourne Again Shell
- Background
- Shell Basics
- Parameters and Variables
- Processes
- History
- Aliases
- Functions
- Controlling bash Features and Options
- Processing the Command Line
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 9. The TC Shell
- Shell Scripts
- Entering and Leaving the TC Shell
- Features Common to the Bourne Again and TC Shells
- Redirecting Standard Error
- Working with the Command Line
- Variables
- Control Structures
- Builtins
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Part IV: Networking and Maintenance
- Chapter 10. Networking and the Internet
- Types of Networks and How They Work
- Communicate over a Network
- Network Utilities
- Distributed Computing
- Usenet
- WWW: World Wide Web
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 11. System Maintenance
- Philosophy of System Administration
- System Administrator and Superuser
- System Operation
- NetInfo
- Important Standard Directories and Files
- Useful Utilities
- Setting Up a Server
- PAM
- fink: Downloads and Installs Software
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Part V: Programming Tools
- Chapter 12. Programming Tools
- Carbon, Cocoa, and UNIX APIs
- Programming in C
- Using Shared Libraries
- make: Keeps a Set of Programs Current
- Debugging C Programs
- Threads
- System Calls
- Source Code Management
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 13. Programming the Bourne Again Shell
- Control Structures
- File Descriptors
- Chapter 14. The awk Pattern Processing Language
- Syntax
- Arguments
- Options
- Notes
- Language Basics
- Examples
- Error Messages
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 15. The sed Editor
- Syntax
- Arguments
- Options
- Editor Basics
- Examples
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Part VI: Command Reference
- Command Reference
- Utilities That Display and Manipulate Files
- Network Utilities
- Utilities That Display and Alter Status
- Utilities That Are Programming Tools
- Miscellaneous Utilities
- Standard Multiplicative Suffixes
- Common Options
- The sample Utility
- Part VII: Appendixes
- Appendix A. Regular Expressions
- Characters
- Delimiters
- Simple Strings
- Special Characters
- Rules
- Bracketing Expressions
- The Replacement String
- Extended Regular Expressions
- Appendix Summary
- Appendix B. Help
- Solving a Problem
- Finding Related Information
- Specifying a Terminal
- Appendix C. Mac OS X for UNIX Users
- Glossary
- Index
- SYMBOL
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
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A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users
ISBN: 0131863339
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 234
Pages: 234
Authors: Mark G. Sobell, Peter Seebach