hmm, man help or help man? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 4:13 PM Subject: Re: What is terminal?
This might have already been said but there is some measure of manuals built in in the "man" command. So you say "man cd" to read about how to use the cd command to change directories or "man ls" to learn about listing files. Learning unix is probably beyond the scope of this mailing list though. Here is nice basics tutorial called Learn Unix in 10 Minutes: http://freeengineer.org/learnUNIXin10minutes.html Here is another one: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unixintro.html Lots of books out there as well if you want to dive deeper. Only annoying bit is there are a lot of Unix flavors. Sort of like different dialects of English. Mostly similar but not the same. That means commands for Linux might not work perfectly or without modification on Solaris or MacOSX etc. CB Orin wrote: > Hmm. I sum day want to be able to run my digital life from the prompt > and be leet like that. Manuals, anyone? > On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:26 AM, Ryan Dour wrote: > >> Ah, let me start by saying its the other whole half of your Mac you >> didn't know you had. That is your portal to the BSD underpinnings of >> Mac OS X. In other words, its Mac OS X's command line interface. This >> interface isn't going to be something nearly as easy to use as your >> other Mac applications. Simply, you need to learn how to use UNIX >> command line concepts to understand the expanse in which you have >> entered. >> >> This is like discovering there is actually an engine under that shiny >> hood of a car. If you learn about it, you become the true master of >> your machine. If you learn it at a professional level, you've got a >> career in server administration on your hands. It is a tool to do >> something as simple as renaming and moving files. Or, it could be >> used to pretty much run your whole digital life at the prompt. It is >> up to you. >> >> Good luck, >> Ryan >> >> >> >> On Feb 17, 2008, at 9:54 PM, Bruins Fan wrote: >> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> What is terminal and how does it work? >>> Thanks, Olivia >>> >> >> > >
