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A Practical Guide to UNIX® for Mac OS® X Users
By Mark G. Sobell, Peter Seebach
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: December 21, 2005
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-186333-9
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-186333-0
Pages: 1056

Table of Contents  | Index

		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: Superuser/root/Administrator 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
				Email
				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 Generation/Pathname 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