Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide by Barrett, Daniel J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly 1. The Macintosh Terminal

What’s in This Book?

What’s the Terminal? What’s a Command? Ten Commands to Try Reading This Book

Standard Input and Output Keystrokes Long lines Your friend, the echo command Quick help

Running the Terminal The Filesystem

Structure of the Filesystem Navigating the Filesystem Home Directories in the Filesystem System Directories in the Filesystem

Directory path part 1: category Directory path part 2: scope Directory path part 3: application

File Protections

The Shell

The Shell Versus Programs Selected Features of the bash Shell

Wildcards Brace expansion Shell variables Search path Aliases Input/output redirection Pipes Combining commands Quoting Escaping Command-line editing Command history Filename completion

Shell Job Control

jobs & ^Z bg fg suspend

Killing a Command in Progress Terminating a Shell Tailoring Shell Behavior

2. Commands

Basic File Operations

ls cp mv rm ln

Directory Operations

cd pwd basename dirname mkdir rmdir

File Viewing

cat less head tail nl strings od xxd

File Creation and Editing

Creating a File Quickly Your Default Editor

Emacs vim look

File Properties

stat wc du file touch chown chgrp chmod umask xattr

File Text Manipulation

grep egrep fgrep cut paste tr sort uniq tee

File Location

find xargs locate which type whereis

File Compression and Packaging

gzip bzip2 compress zip tar

File Comparison

diff comm cmp md5

Printing

lpr lpq lprm

Disks and Filesystems

df diskutil mount fsck_hfs hdiutil tmutil sync rsync

Viewing Processes

ps uptime w top

Controlling Processes

open kill nice renice shutdown

Scheduling Jobs

sleep at crontab launchctl

Users and Their Environment

logname whoami id who users last finger chfn passwd chsh dscl printenv

Becoming the Superuser

Group Management

groups dscl

Host Information

uname sw_vers hostname scutil ifconfig ipconfig

Host Location

host whois ping traceroute

Network Connections

ssh telnet scp sftp ftp

Email Commands

mail mailq

Web Commands

curl wget

Messaging

talk write mesg tty

Screen Output

echo printf pbcopy pbpaste yes clear

Math and Calculations

expr dc seq

Dates and Times

cal date

3. Advanced Topics

Running a Shell Remotely

Enabling remote logins Logging in remotely with SSH SSH roadblocks

Installing Software with a Package Manager

Obtaining an Apple Developer ID Installing Xcode Installing Command Line Tools for Xcode Installing the Homebrew Package Manager Using Homebrew Installing from TAR Files

Programming with Shell Scripts

Creating and Running Shell Scripts Whitespace and Linebreaks Variables Input and Output Booleans and Return Codes

test and “[” true and false

Conditionals Loops Break and Continue Command-Line Arguments Exiting with a Return Code Beyond Shell Scripting

Getting Help Final Words

Acknowledgments

Index About the Author SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly Copyright

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