Greetings,
On Jul 5, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 5, 2005, at 4:06 PM, George Hozendorf wrote:
I'm just now getting around to trying this. When I started Terminal
I saw nothing about, "cd to /Users." What do you mean by this?
This is a good time to step back from the terminal, and head to a
bookstore or library for either Mac OS X the Missing Manual and read
the Unix section or this other, excellent O'Reilly book:
Learning Unix for Mac OS X
:<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ltigerunix/>
This is the Tiger edition, but editions exist for previous OS X
systems.
There are also a lot of 'Unix for Beginners' stuff on the web, much of
it can be used in OS X.
Heres two links specific to OS X:
<http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/index.ws>
<http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/unix.html> Written by a
non-computer geek. However it IS written by a chemistry geek, so who
knows ;-)
Seriously. If you're stumbling on the command like that, you can do
damage to your system mucking about.
The terminal is a power tool; like other power tools, it can make easy
work of hard tasks, but it can also take off a hand or a leg if you're
not careful 8-)
--
Bruce Johnson
This is the sig who says 'Ni!'
--
While your in the terminal you can read all of the manuals that are
assoiated with unix.
Enter, "whereis man" and the system should respond with /usr/bin/man
Then if you do a "ls -l /usr/bin/" you will get a complete listing of
all of the BSD commands that are stored in your system.
Using the command "man man" from anywhere within the terminal window
you can read any of the commands. Of course "man man" if for the "man"
command. From your "ls -l /usr/bin/" command there will be a long list
of manuals that you can read, or print.
Like the first one in my system is A2P(1)
Perl Programmers Reference Guide
NAME a2p - Awk to Perl translator
However just remember that if you are loged in as the the "root" or
"administrative" user you have a lot of power over your operating
system and you can "Hose thing up" to the point where you'll have to do
a complete OS reload.
Best Regards,
Harry (*^_^*)
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