"Unix for Mac OS X Tiger" book question

[DouglasCarroll]

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this is a dumb question but here goes. I am interested in teaching myself to use Unix and the terminal on Mac OS X and have the book "Unix for Mac OS X Tiger" by Matisse Enzer. It seems like a really good book and I will use the Tiger version on my Powerbook G4, but I was wondering how applicable is this book to later versions of the Mac OS Unix system? In other words, will I be able to, more or less, be able to use the same commands in Mojave, etc or has there been big changes that make this book totally obsolete? Like I said, sorry for the dumb question but I really don't know anything about Unix and am starting here.

Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can give me, I really appreciate it!!



Douglas

 

[timidpimpin]

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this is a dumb question but here goes. I am interested in teaching myself to use Unix and the terminal on Mac OS X and have the book "Unix for Mac OS X Tiger" by Matisse Enzer. It seems like a really good book and I will use the Tiger version on my Powerbook G4, but I was wondering how applicable is this book to later versions of the Mac OS Unix system? In other words, will I be able to, more or less, be able to use the same commands in Mojave, etc or has there been big changes that make this book totally obsolete? Like I said, sorry for the dumb question but I really don't know anything about Unix and am starting here.

Thanks in advance for any advice anyone can give me, I really appreciate it!!



Douglas

The command structure is the same throughout. It's all standard FreeBSD, which is what Darwin is based on. I believe Tiger is Darwin 8.

 

[sanfrancisofont1984]

Apart from compiler toolchain the Unix tools have not changed much. A few notes for Catalina: no more emacs, bash deprecated (use zsh instead), python2 deprecated (use python 3 obviously).

 

[DouglasCarroll]

Thanks so much for the responses, that really helps a lot!!