command line book

[Clarus]

I wonder how long it'll be until we see a OS X command line for dummies book.... hell, I'd buy it!

-Lucian

 

[AdmiralAK]

there is no need to wait because CLI books for UNIX already exist.

I have two of em (required for classes)

1) Harley Hahn's Student Guit to UNIX
2) Unix for programmers and users

 

[dalee]

If you buy any BSD book it'll tell you pretty much any thing you want about how to use the command line - I found that for people like myself who vaiguely knew how to use UNIX, the best book to buy was O'Reilly's "UNIX in a nutshell book", it gives detailed instructions for almoste every command, plus info on emacs, vi, troof scripting and a bit about make files etc... check it out it's worth everything to me!
Dave

 

[cyberkazoo]

One of my classes I'm taking doesn't really have any textbook, and most of the materials are posted online. But my teacher suddenly had us buy those two books:

* Essential System Administration, 2nd Ed. (O'Reilly)
* Unix System Administration Handbook, 3rd Ed. (Prentice Hall)

First one seems to cover all sorts of commands, while second one explains different things you can do with UNIX.

Ok, I got books, I got school Unix account ... but our Unix lab has turned into Win2k lab before I knew.

Well, another reason to convince me to get OS X right there. Was that a coincident or what? But either way ... it worked for me.

 

[Dominion]

I would recommed pretty much any Unix/BSD book from O'Reilly, they have been usefull to me for years.

For anyone wanting to find more details on some of the well known Unix tools, e.g. sed/awk/grep etc you can get small O'Reilly's that go into great detail.

Also, since it's Unix, there is a heap of on-line documentation available as part of the OS.

I'm refering to the _man_ual pages. For pretty much any Unix utility, try man <command-name>
e.g. man grep

The man pages unfortunatly won't be there for OSX specific tools unless Apple is kind enough to right them, but it certainly provides a handy quick reference to commands.



p.s. OSX rules - I've been using about 10 different Unix's for around 6 years now, and OSX is the best OS I've ever had the pleasure of using...