Mac OS X - Terminal View a tutorial on this topic

Platform: Mac

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Welcome to our advanced Apple® Mac OS® X series: TERMINAL VELOCITY. Lurking beneath the shiny new Aqua interface is a tried-and-true UNIX® core with a real, live CLI (command line interface). You could avoid it if you wanted to, but what fun would that be? Dive in and learn those cryptic commands! Speak the geekspeak. Amaze your friends at parties!
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Key # Length
1. preview Launching the Terminal 1087 0:39
2. preview Running Top 1088 1:41
3. preview Using the PWD command 1089 0:36
4. preview Listing a directory 1090 0:39
5. preview Changing directories 1091 1:13
6. preview Listing directories with more info 1092 1:24
7. preview Clearing the Terminal 1093 0:32
Key # Length
1. locked Viewing a "man" page 1094 2:45
2. locked Viewing a "man" page of the "Man" command 1095 1:46
3. locked Copying a file 1096 2:10
4. locked Moving or renaming a file 1097 1:34
5. locked Making a new directory 1098 0:51
Key # Length
1. locked Making a new text file with Pico 1099 2:19
2. locked Opening an existing file with the Pico editor 1100 2:17
3. locked Getting help in the Pico editor 1101 2:02
4. locked Removing files and folders 1102 2:03
5. locked Using Cat to view a file on the screen 1105 0:44
6. locked Redirecting output to a file 1106 1:31
7. locked Using the VI editor 1107 1:53
8. locked Using the Emacs Editor 1108 0:49
9. locked Using "more" and "less" to browse files 1109 1:09
10. locked Getting quick access to recent commands 1110 1:05
11. locked Applying the Apropos command 1111 1:33
Key # Length
1. locked Using basic permissions 1112 2:14
2. locked Changing permissions with chmod 1113 4:02
3. locked Changing file ownership with chown 1114 1:40
4. locked Enabling the "root" account 1115 2:22
5. locked Exiting from the "root" identity 1116 1:05
6. locked Using chgrp to change the group owner of a file 1118 1:12
Key # Length
1. locked Locating System commands with where is 1117 1:30
2. locked Using grep to find specific information 1119 2:16
3. locked Piping command output into another command 1120 1:59
4. locked Suspending a process in the background 1121 1:15
5. locked Viewing suspended jobs and current processes 1122 2:36
6. locked Using cmp to compare files 1123 1:10
7. locked Using wc to count words, lines, and bytes 1124 0:50
8. locked Using compress and uncompress 1125 1:10
Key # Length
1. locked "Bailing out" of a command 1126 0:51
2. locked Using "ping" to test for network connectivity 1127 1:18
3. locked Checking disk usage with df 1128 1:08
4. locked Using tab to AutoComplete commands 1129 2:01
5. locked Viewing the head and tail end of files 1130 1:19
6. locked Using "script" to record Terminal activity 1131 1:51
7. locked Creating or updating a file with "touch" 1133 1:09
8. locked Creating soft links 1134 4:24
9. locked Discovering who is logged in 1103 2:22
10. locked Checking your uptime and load averages 1104 0:59
11. locked Checking and setting the date and time 1135 1:52
12. locked Checking system messages from the console 1136 1:25
13. locked Shutting down and rebooting from the Terminal 1132 2:09
Tutorial series by Jim Norwood
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