Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide: Take Command of Your Mac

This is a great resource for the Terminal Language

What can I say, I'm new to Mac and although I've used cygwin on Windows for years, I'm a newb to Unix and just wanted to get some quick "cliff notes" into OS X Terminal to help ramp myself up. I liked Daniel's writing style throughout the book. He also provides some good best practices such as modifying rm in your .bash_profile file for rm to run with the -i switch allowing you to get that second chance to abort from a complete removal of a file(s) from time and space. If your switching over to Mac and will be using Terminal, it's worth the $9.99. I'm also adding some other books as supplements notably  Unix in a Nutshell  and  A Practical Guide to UNIX for Mac OS X Users . I'm currently reading over  Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell  and so far it's ok but I'm only on chapter one. We'll see if it stands up to  Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide .Update 06.13.2013So, I also finished  Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell . I was wrong. Great book. You can really see what people do that is the same and what they do that is different. Both of these books provide a great a mount of "basic" information for the newbie. I am actually going back to both books as I had to re-image my MacBook and had to go through the process of reinstalling Xcode/CLI for Xcode and Homebrew which are recommend in  Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide  and which with I've had great success.

This guide has served well in increasing my own knowledge of Macintosh operating systems. While not as comprehensive as I'd like, it has definitely helped on occasion and can definitely be a part of an admin's toolkit. This little guide is great for power-users, Mac enthusiasts who would like to know more about the OS' UNIX foundations, and can be helpful for administrators too. While it may have been published a while ago, the materials is still very much relevant and useful to this day. I'd recommend it for whom I listed- plus, beginners can even dig in and learn from it too.

I usually don't purchase the books that I get a free review with because frankly I didn't know how. I would get put in an endless circle as I tried to purchase because all it would allow me to do from the kindle app was to download the sample over and over. This book made me further research the matter because I didn't just want the free download. This time I was not going to stop until I figured out how to purchase the book.The track is that you need to purchase this book from a browser not from the amazon app on my iPad. I had to find the book from my google chrome browser and purchase the kindle book from that browser. The long and short of it is... I found this book good enough to go threw all that trouble and I still gave it a five star review.

This small guide gives Mac users a very basic introduction to Unix commands. This book is designed for the do it yourselfer that has always wanted to, but afraid to, open the terminal program and check out the shell.Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide 1st EditionThe commands and options are given in a way of how you might use the commands. This book was well laid out making it clear on the commands, options, outputs and results of each section. Other books I've read on the subject tend to be a text overload but this book had a great use of typefaces, shading and style to make it a clear and straightforward read.Unix commands can be overwhelming and just downright scary if you don't understand them right and enter them in correctly.This book helps the reader to explore without putting their systems at risk or damage.

It's been 20 years since I've used unix commands, and this book was a good refresher. It's also a good intro to the Mac terminal, and I intend to use it to write some disk backup routines and others that MacOS doesn't provide. Just gotta find the time...

This little guide is a small, concise quick reference to terminal commands on OS X. It starts with the basics - what is the OS X terminal and proceeds to focus on commonly used processes. The book's strength is in showing how to accomplish tasks faster and more efficiently through terminal, rather than using the standard GUI tools. In other words the author demonstrates how a task is accomplished in the GUI and how its accomplished with terminal. The examples chosen enable a novice or advanced user to use the book as a tutorial to learn terminal from scratch or hone skills.

I said goodbye to MS-DOS two decades ago. I've been a happy Mac user since OS-7. The idea of using a command line was anathema to me. Then I landed a job supporting developers working on apps for Apple products. Suddenly, Terminal was part of my daily life. Barrett's book has been extremely helpful to me, definitely more useful than the Terminal online help.Originally, I bought Macintosh Terminal as an e-book. But I soon added a printed copy, which I find much easier to use, especially when working on a MacBook.

En realidad no es una guía de la shell de Mac OS, este sistema usa la shell zsh y este libro habla de la bash, prácticamente no tienen nada que ver.Estoy usando el mac os Catalina y trae ya la zsh, vamos que se han equivocado además es un libro antiguo y obsoleto.

Je recommande à ceux qui utilisent le iterm sur mac. En anglais.

Praktisch, klar, typografisch sauber – was will man noch mehr ?

Excellent quick reference guide to immediately get started on the terminal.Found it very useful. This book gets to the point. It may not be comprehensive but that's not the goal of this book.

In a nutshell: If you frequently work with the Mac OS X Terminal then you need this book. Not only is it a great reference for all your day-to-day commands, but it is also a book you can dip into and almost always learn something new and insightful.As a software developer who has recently converted to using OS X as my main development box this book is proving an invaluable reference to working with the Mac Terminal/shell. I must confess that I only recently stumbled across this book after a recommendation by the author replying to a review I wrote for the  Linux Pocket Guide  (essentially the Linux-based version of this book). The aforementioned Linux reference has long since established itself within arms-reach on a shelf next to my desk, as I'm frequently referring to it when working with locally running Linux-based VMs or boxes running in the Cloud. Although it's still early days, I'm already thinking that this OS X pocket guide will earn a space on my desk right next to the Linux version, as it will not only save me mentally translating Linux commands into OS X parlance (where the syntax can sometimes be subtly different), but it's also a lot of fun to dip into during a brain-frazzle moment and learn a new command or switch.Much like it's sister volume, this book is A5 in size and only 200 pages long, but it crams in an amazing amount of commands that should cater to all but the most hardcore of power users. It also has several bonus chapters discussing such things as installing the excellent Homebrew package manager (which is bizarrely missing from the default installation of OS X?). I'm assuming that most advanced OS X users will be aware of this already, but if you're just starting out in the world of power-Mac usage then this stuff will blow your mind! No more downloading obscure DMGs from the 'net and manually fiddling with the configuration options to get things running.It could be argued that there are a few minor omissions in this book - I was a little disappointed not to see details on my beloved netstat and vm_stat commands, and I would have liked a bit more description on the output of some of the commands (e.g. top), but this really is nit-picking, and if you buy the  Linux Pocket Guide  at the same time as this book (which I would recommend if your serious about learning the shell) then you'll learn about these things anyway.In summary, this is a great book for navigating the OS X shell, and whether you're a Terminal-novice or a seasoned power-user you will learn plenty (and most likely have fun doing it :-) ). Another great piece of work by the author. Linux Pocket GuideLinux Pocket Guide