Unix for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger:

Visual QuickPro Guide, 2nd Edition

reviewed by Robert Pritchett

Unix for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Visual QuickPro Guide, 2nd Edition by Matisse Enzer is a rewrite of edition one and is all Tiger.

Matisse Enzer does a great job coming across and showing that Unix on the Mac is not all that hard after all. Where appropriate, there are comparisons between the Unix code and the equivalent in Mac OS X Tiger.  If you have not looked at the Terminal mode in Mac OS X, now is a great time to walk through it and the various commands using this book.

This edition has 14 chapters on why Unix is good, using the command line and getting help with the Unix manual, some utilities, suing files and directories, editing and printing files, configuring , working with permissions and ownership, creating and using scripts,  connecting over the Internet, and why I like the book, introduction to System administration and Security, installing software from source code and installing and configuring servers. There is an appendix that discusses Darwin-only Unix commands.

If you don’t have a Grep on Unix, why not get this book and jump right in?