Mac OSXTerminal Basicsv2.1

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2 Introduction This FAQisintended to be a quick primer on Mac OS XsBSDSubsystem. The BSD Subsystem is a powerful tool that gives you an immense array of new capabilities and access ...

 

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Mac OSXTerminal Basicsv2.1 Neal Parikh/nparikh@freeshell.org/neal@macnn.co m September 29,2002 1 Table of Contents 1. Table of Contents 2. Introduction 3. Why UNIX? 4. WhatsDarwin? 5. Basics of Darwin 6. Introduction to shells 7. Running system commands 8. Basic shell customization 9. Permissions 10. Running programs 11. WhatsNetInfo? 12. Basics of compilation 13. Process Management 14. Introduction to text editors: Pico, Emacs, and Vi 15. Introduction to XWindows/X11 1 2 Introduction This FAQisintended to be a quick primer on Mac OS XsBSDSubsystem. The BSD Subsystem is a powerful tool that gives you an immense array of new capabilities and access to a large number of new applications. If you learn touse them wisely, you can do some truly incredible things. 3 Why UNIX? That is the main question, isntit? Many people are confused as to why Apple has picked UNIX in the first place. There are several reasons why Apple has picked UNIX to be the core of their new OS (not in order of importance): 1. The historical reason: Mac OS Xsrootstraceback to NeXTSTEP, and that used UNIX. 2. Developers who maybe unfamiliar with the Mac platform will likely have some level of familiarity with Unix, which aids portingeorts. 3. Most users who have studied computer science in either school or college have encountered Unix on some level, and must have some basic familiarity with it. 4. Theresareasonalmost every server in the world runs Unix. Avast amount of administration software, and a lot of it that runs very stably. A Unix server, properly configured, can be very low maintenance. 5. Having an open source core makes the OS more flexible. For example, theresnowayof upgrading the OS 9 version of Personal WebSharing without Apple releasing a software update.      If you find that Apache (the world-standardwebserver included with OS X) is out of date, you can just go to thew ...

 

 

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