Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 516 pages
• Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 3rd ed. edition November 10, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0596009437
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596009434
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

Product Description
Following the common-sense O'Reilly style, Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell cuts through the chaff and gives you practical details you can use every day. Everything you need to know about the Unix side of Mac OS X has been systematically documented in this book.

Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell offers a complete overview of Mac OS X Tiger (Version 10.4), focusing on the BSD Unix layer. This book familiarizes you with over 300 of Tiger's Unix commands, the Terminal application, file management, system and network administration issues, and more.

Completely revised for Mac OS X Tiger, this book offers:

• The most complete and thorough coverage of Mac OS X's Unix commands you'll find anywhere (even in the system)
• An overview of basic system and network administration features, including coverage of NetInfo and Directory Services
• An introduction to using Mac OS X's Unix command-line interface, the Terminal application
• An overview of Mac OS X's Unix text editors, including vi and Emacs
• Information on shell syntax variables for Tiger's default Unix shell, bash

Each command and option in this book's Unix Command Reference has been painstakingly tested and checked against Tiger; even the manpages that ship with Mac OS X can't compete in accuracy. Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell is the most comprehensive quick reference on the market and is a must for any serious Mac user.

About The Author
Andy Lester has been a professional programmer for 18 years and a Perl evangelist for a decade. By day, he manages programmers for Follett Library Resources in McHenry, IL. By night, he spreads the gospel of automated testing and maintains over a dozen CPAN modules. Lester also writes for The Perl Journal, and three of his hacks have been published in Spidering Hacks by O'Reilly.

Reader Reviews
Yes, this is a command-line centric book - because that's where all the POWER is (the graphical user interface is well designed and hardly needs a reference). This book provides a great OS X-specific reference - so you won't have to test all the commands in your "UNIX in a Nutshell" book to see which ones work. Aside from the command line, this book provides important information on Managing Mac OS X (See PART THREE, below) and an excellent index for finding your information. The sections (and approximate page count) in this book are: PART ONE - Commands and Shells Introduction - 3 pages Unix Command Reference - 251 pages Using the Terminal - 13 pages Shell Overview - 3 pages bash: The Bourne-Again Shell - ten pages PART TWO - Text Editing and Processing Pattern Matching - 3 pages The Vi Editor - 34 pages The Emacs Editor - 12 pages PART THREE - Managing Mac OS X Filesystem Overview - 15 pages Directory Services - 15 pages Running Network Services - ten pages The X Window System - 11 pages The Defaults System - 3 pages INDEX