Learning Unix for OS X: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell

This is a well written book that explains things from the ground up, that will get beginners (like me) using the command line to do basic things on the Mac within hours. I really enjoyed the clear explanations of things.

The book does a good job of describing how the bash shell interacts with macOS and the Terminal app. For example it tells how to copy a path from Finder into the Terminal window and how to customize Terminal. It says a little about using AppleScript from Terminal. I found the book to be useful.The book is the Second Edition, in 2016. But was it fully updated? It mentions "ftp" command, which is superseded by sftp.There is a point of confusion. It uses the following terms interchangeably:• root• admin• administrator user• superuserThe book is good as an introductory source and mentions some advanced subjects, but often does not go into enough detail to use those subjects.

Very good book. Easy to follow and excellent examples.

Great intro to the bash shell / terminal for Mac users. I recommend it to everyone on my team.

This book was written years ago, and many things have changed since. However, much of the information the author presents is still useful and can be very helpful for a macOS admin, developer, or even power user. I would still recommend it even at the end of 2022.

I just received this book the other day and even though I have been learning about Unix for the past several months, I was able to pick up this book and after only a few pages, I learned something new.

Great for begginers. I really wanted to know how Mac OS works. I been using since Mac OS since 2006.

This book feels like a comedy routine where the straight man keeps trying to explain the CLI, and the funny guy keeps interrupting with some secondary detour, like all the subtle ways to set up Terminal, or complex exceptions to expected behavior (before we have learned what to expect).A much better intro is Kirk McElhearn's 'The Mac OSX Command Line'. It's old, but will get you far enough to care about changes since it was written.

Great for Mac users. I'm already very familiar with UNIX but this book has some great info for Mac users

A good text book for newbies

Ritengo di avere effettuato un ottimo acquisto. Si tratta di un libro che spiega in modo esaustivo, con precisione senza scendere nel tecnicismo astruso, tutte le possibilità offerte dall'interfaccia a carattere del Terminale e delle altre funzioni UNIX sottostanti il sistema operativo OS X.Anche se non è aggiornato all'ultima versione di OS X, il testo risulta attuale e completo.Lo consiglio a tutti quelli che voglio conoscere di più su UNIX ed avere anche la possibilità di accrescere la loro competenza informatica, velocizzando determinate operazioni, che l'interfaccia a carattere semplifica e velocizza.

This Subtitle misleads the book. It is for beginners.I expected much more from this book, and I could't return it.

This book is pretty good for learning Unix if you have a MacBook. I have read some parts of it, and it is great.