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 Chapter 1, Introduction - This chapter provides you with a quick introduction to the Unix side of Mac OS X.Chapter 2, Unix Command Reference - This chapter lists descriptions and usage terms for over 300 of the Unix commands found in Mac OS X. Chapter 3, Using the Terminal - This chapter introduces you to the Terminal application and shows you how to issue commands and tweak its settings. Chapter 4, Shell Overview - This chapter provides a quick overview of the differences between bash, Mac OS X Panther's default shell, and tcsh, the default shell for earlier versions of Mac OS X. Chapter 5, bash: The Bourne-Again Shell - This chapter provides a quick overview of the bashshell, along with a listing of its built-in commands for shell scripting. Chapter 6, Pattern Matching - A number of Unix text-processing utilities let you search for, and in some cases change, text patterns rather than fixed strings. These utilities include editing programs such as viand Emacs, programming languages such as Perl and Python, and the commands grepand egrep. Chapter 7, The vi Editor - viis the classic screen-based text editing program for Unix. In Mac OS X Panther, vimis the default version of viand runs when you invoke vifrom the command line. This chapter covers some of vi's most commonly used options and features. Chapter 8, The Emacs Editor - The Emacs editor is found on many Unix systems, including Mac OS X, because it is a popular alternative to vi. For many Unix users, Emacs is more than "just an editor." While Emacs provides a fully integrated user environment, this chapter focuses on its editing capabilities. Chapter 9, Filesystem Overview - Like any Unix system, much of Mac OS X's functionality is based on its filesystem layout. This chapter tours the various folders found on a typical Mac OS X volume, including the Unix-centric directories that the Finder usually keeps out of sight. Chapter 10, Directory Services - This chapter details the way Mac OS X stores and accesses its administrative information, ranging from the NetInfo system of network-linked databases to the "old-school" file-based system familiar to Unix administrators. Chapter 11, Running Network Services - Mac OS X's suite of open source Unix software includes a full complement of network services programs. This chapter details the major categories of services Unix supplies, including web servers, file sharing, and mail servers. This chapter also covers the control that Mac OS X gives you through either the Sharing preferences pane or the command line. Chapter 12, The X Window System - This chapter highlights some of the key features of Apple's X11 distribution and explains how to install Apple's X11 and the X11 SDK.You'll also learn how to connect to other X Window Systems using Virtual Network Computer (VNC), as well as how to remotely control the Mac OS X desktop from other X11 systems. Chapter 13, The Defaults System - This chapter describes how to gain access to and hack these settings via the Terminal application and the defaultscommand. Download Free ebook for Linux: Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell
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