Unix for Mac: Your Visual Blueprint for Maximizing the Foundation of Mac OS X [With CDROM]

By Brendan Hennessy

* Mac OS X combines the Unix power developers need with Mac's ease of use, offering a unique combination of technical elements with enhanced performance, compatibility, and usability * Shows readers how to use the Terminal application and the command interface, and explores the many Unix applications using step-by-step screen shots * Readers will learn how to manage, create, edit, and transfer files; configure the Unix environment; navigate permissions, directories and files; run Unix utilities; and configure and run the Apache Web server

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076453730X
• ISBN13: 9780764537301
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: 3-D Visual Press
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Very useful book and really easy to read!

OS X UNIX is amazingly friendly and accessible. Some people who had never used it before type commands and work with the operating system directly as a "cool guys" in movies! This book is very helpful and well written and it is serves as a very nice reference. Try Linux and UNIX for a beginner complete training suite, 4DVDs + 2CDs ed.2008 The book is unfortunately contains some mistakes that undermine the trust to the text...

Crystal clear, detailed, comprehensive. As-good-as-it-gets!

If you want to use the "Terminal" and play around with your unix capabilities, just get this book and go! It comes with a CD rom containing an e-version of itself, which is very convenient.The crystal clarity comes from the presence of examples - **as they would appear on your terminal - below the actual text, and also the organization:each concept is covered within two facing pages.Much more detail appears here than in the...

Great intro to working with Unix in OS X

Unix for Mac introduces itself with a succinct history of BSD (Unix), the meaning of Open Source, and the role GNU plays in Open Source programming. It avoids bogging the reader down with excessive information while, at the same time, providing a very good introduction. My typical response to the historical and explanatory information was: "Oh, okay. That makes sense." This response was consistent through the entire book...