Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-10 Thread Esther
Hi Mike, As an addition to the helpful advice Chris gave, I suggest for viewing man page descriptions of Terminal commands that you use the free app, Bwana, available from Bruji.com: http://www.bruji.com/bwana/ This lets you query the commands you want to check with your web browser, and also

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-09 Thread Mike M
Brandon, I am very new to this and only know a little like how to change directors as well as simple commends like LS . I am reading through a book in iBooks about uNix but was wondering if you know of a place I can get a simple list of more of the basic commands. I am

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-09 Thread Mike M
Great! Thank you very much! Mike On Nov 8, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com 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

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Blouch
There is a command called man which gives you the manual page for any command which can help with figuring things out. So you can do man ls to get all the info you might care to read about the ls command. CB On 11/9/12 10:46 PM, Mike M wrote: Brandon, I am very new to this and only

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-09 Thread Mike M
Great! This will help a lot. Thank you very much! So since there is so much to do with Terminal, what do those of you who use it do with it? What got you into it and why do you use it? Mike On Nov 9, 2012, at 9:47 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: There is a command called man

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Sort of the difference between asking someone to do something for you and doing it yourself. When you ask someone else it may or may not get done the way you want it when you want it. Terminal lets you do exactly what you want, so I usually end up there when things are in a weird state like a

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-08 Thread Esther
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

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-07 Thread Brandon Olivares
It really depends on what you want to know. I don't have any ersources, but know a lot about using terminal, so ask whatever questions you might have. Brandon Azavia Technologies On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Mike M blinkin4...@gmail.com wrote: Calling all geeks! I have been digging

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Blouch
Terminal/unix has been around for decades so there is lore stretching back to the beginnings of computer science. It's sort of like asking if anyone has any favorite recipes. There are millions of ways to combine the same ingredients. Best things to ask is how to solve a specific problem. For

Re: Anyone have Terminal tricks and resources?

2012-11-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
There's a take Control book on using terminal in Mac. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Brandon Olivares programmer2...@gmail.com wrote: It really depends