Where to Find More Information


Unix is a complete operating system, and we can only touch on the surface of it in this book. Fortunately, Unix comes with a lot of internal documentation in the form of man pages. Enter man followed by the name of the command, and you receive Chapter and verse about that command. If you aren’t quite sure about the name of the command but you know roughly what it does, you may be able to find it by using the apropos command followed by a keyword. First, you should investigate the man command — type man man.

Tip

Instead of displaying man pages in the Terminal window, you can display them in a Mac OS X application such as ManOpen by Carl Lindberg (www.clindberg.org/projects/ManOpen.html). This application has a Find command to help you find the man page that you want to read. You can also select a man page from a list of available pages in another window.

Many applications are already written for Unix. Fink is an open-source project intended to ease the task of installing and managing Unix software on your Mac OS X system. For a thorough explanation of what Fink is and how to install and use it, read the next Chapter!

You can find a number of excellent books on Unix. If you want a gentle introduction, we would recommend Unix For Dummies, 4th Edition, by John R. Levine and Margaret Levine Young.

As always, the Internet provides a wealth of references. For Unix issues, some Web sites we particularly recommend include

  • A Unix Guide at www.ed.com/unixguide

  • Unix is a Four-Letter Word at http://unix.t-a-y-l-o-r.com

You can find literally hundreds of others. Use Sherlock to do an Internet search for Unix, and you will be amazed at the number of sites that have Unix as a keyword.




Mac OS X Bible, Panther Edition
Mac OS X Bible, Panther Edition
ISBN: 0764543997
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 290

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