Recommend UNIX book for Mac OSX

maclamb

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Sep 5, 2002

• #1

What UNIX book would you recommend for OSX to:
Set enviroment variables
Write scripts
explain basics of differnt shells (tcsh, for eample)

 

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rugby

macrumors regular

• Sep 5, 2002

• #2

Far and away the best OS X book I've seen is called "Mac OS X Unleashed" by J & W Ray

 

Geert

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 5, 2002

• #3

Originally posted by rugby
Far and away the best OS X book I've seen is called "Mac OS X Unleashed" by J & W Ray

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Thick and good!

 

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ArtMan617

macrumors regular

• Sep 6, 2002

• #4

How much of the book deals specifically with Unix? I'm looking to learn some basics and a good book would be just the thing I'm looking for.

-ArtMan617

 

bousozoku

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 7, 2002

• #5

The "Unleashed" book looks great.

O'Reilly has "Learning UNIX for Mac OS X" and "Mac OS X for UNIX Developers". Their books are always quite good.

 

peterjhill

macrumors 65816

• Sep 8, 2002

• #6

I have the "Learning Unix for Mac OS X" by O'Reilly. It is a well written book, that I purchased mainly out impulse and curiousity. It answers the questions that you ask, but is not a detailed investigation into Unix. What I would recommend would be to go to:
Learning Unix for Mac OS X and check out the table of contents, and look over the sample chapter.

Then if you need more information, then look into:
Unix in a Nutshell
That goes into a lot of detail and is an excellent reference.