Great! Thank you very much! Mike On Nov 8, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mike, > > As Chris and Brandon mentioned, there's a lot of answers for specific topics > about using the terminal. There isn't a lot posted about the best ways to > set up VoiceOver for using Terminal. The best and most extensive posts I've > seen on that topic have come from Travis Siegel on the mac-access list. > Here's the link to an earlier mail archive post I made here that contains a > link to one of Travis' mac-access list posts on "Hints on using terminal". > (This dates from before the mac-access list moved over to using the Mail > Archive as a secondary archive that is easily searchable). > • Re: terminal and voice over > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg45511.html > You're welcome to join that list, too. Here's the info page: > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/ > > I think this is the current web page with more information about their > current mailing lists and list policies. Note that discussion of Windows > related topics have been split off to a separate Windows-access list. > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mailing-Lists.html > > Cheryl's suggestion of the "Take Control of the Mac Command Line with > Terminal" eBook is also a good one. Here's the link to their web page > description: > http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/command-line > > There is also another recent related eBook on this subject from O'Reilly: > • Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion by Dave Taylor (Released: September > 2012) > This has the subtitle: "Using Unix and Linux Tools at the Command Line" and > the URL for the web page is: > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025870.do > It is also available for purchase from iBooks for $9.99: > https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/learning-unix-for-os-x-mountain/id563659679?mt=11 > > I'm not sure whether you would be able to also read this on your computer if > you purchased through iBooks, but you might, since O'Reilly does not use any > DRM with their books. They also make all their books available to > Bookshare, and international Bookshare members can also access all their > books. If you create an account and purchase eBooks directly from the > O'Reilly web site, you'll be able to download multiple versions (e.g., ePub, > mobi, and PDF for this volume), and any errata or minor revisions are always > made available through the links on your account. The ePub is readable on > your computer as well as on any iOS device. For some other, older books they > may offer DAISY versions. > > These suggestions assume no previous background with Unix or Linux. For Mac > users coming from a Linux or Unix background, there are the older O'Reilly > books like "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks (Leopard), 4th Edition" by Ernest E. > Rothman, Brian Jepson, and Rich Rosen: > http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596520632.do > > There's a really old O'Reilly web page dating in 2002 on the "Top Ten Mac OS > X Tips for Unix Geeks": > http://macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/2792 > > It's still good for a quick summary info, but the default shell has long > since changed from tcsh to bash, and the way startup is handled is completely > different. > > One quick tip for Terminal users is that you can use command-c from the > Finder GUI to copy the location of a file or folder, and paste it into a > command-line argument in your Terminal shell. The full path to that file is > always copied that way, so it doesn't matter whether you are in the same > directory in Terminal as the file you want to operate on or not. There's > also a free "Go2Shell" application from the Mac App Store that will let you > launch a Terminal session that opens in the folder you're using in Finder. > Here's the URL at the Mac App Store: > http://itunes.apple.com/app/go2shell/id445770608?mt=12 > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > >>> On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Mike M <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Calling all geeks! >>>> I have been digging around and trying to heather resources to teach >>>> myself how to use Terminal. >>>> I have learned some basics but wanted to put out some feelers and see >>>> if you guys had some resources that you could recommend. >>>> I appreciate any tips and I am off to search archives >>>> >>>> Mike > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
