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A Practical Guide to UNIX(R) for Mac OS(R) X Users | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mark G. Sobell, Peter Seebach
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 75180
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1056
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 2.1
ISBN: 0131863339
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780131863330
ASIN: 0131863339
Publication Date: December 31, 2005
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 Very useful July 8, 2008
Very useful for someone who wants to learn to use Unix on the Mac and has prior knowledge of command line languages.
A great reference November 23, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I got this book as someone who had used UNIX before, but this was many years ago, and I had forgotten a lot. This book is great for picking up the functionalities of various UNIX tools - the explanations are clear and concise. It also works very well as a quick reference. The bulk of the book is devoted to bringing you up from a potentially zero-experience user to someone who can work with ease with editors, shells, and more. Simple examples are included throughout. The back of the book has a 250-page command reference section for quickly looking up how to use a particular command. You could read the whole book and progressively work with UNIX as a self-taught course, or just reference the sections you need.
Excellent May 6, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have several of Mark Sobell's Unix based books and this one is as good as the others which are all excellent. You don't nessecarily need all of them but they are truly tailored to the platform and are a quick way to get to what's important when a new platform presents itself.
If you want to know the underlying MAC, this is for you.
1,000 pages cover basic to advanced shell programming and beyond April 13, 2006
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Mark G. Sobell and Peter Seebach's A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO UNIX FOR MAC OX S USERS is a reference the UNIX/Mac user simply must have at hand: nearly a thousand pages of reference material on everything from basic and advanced shell programming to Mac's OS X filesystem and utilities modules make this the best reference on the market for users who seek either a step-by-step tutorial or a basic browser's reference for problem-solving. Exercises to test knowledge boxed highlights of information make it easy to either refer to for at-a-glance troubleshooting or sit down and study for step-by-step methodology.
From the ground up January 23, 2006
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is the book I've been looking for. Not just 'OS X for Unix Geeks' or 'OS X in a Nutshell', I wanted more. As much as possible, in one resource. 1000+ pages signaled a big yes.
I have yet to read it all the way through, but so far this is a very good guide for those who want not only to learn the general 'Unix way' of computing, but dive under the surface of OS X and examine its specificities in the command line interface, aka the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
No, this isn't a 'hacks' book, and there's no mention of rsync, for example, but you'll find ample documentation of the underside of OS X--there's a lot more to it than just a GUI, folks.
Educational, yes. Hence 'Practical Guide'; you'll learn a good deal, in almost textbook fashion. Recommended to enhance the power and fun of your OS X experience!
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