Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

Table of contents

1. 1. The Macintosh Terminal
   1. What’s in This Book?
      1. What’s the Terminal?
      2. What’s a Command?
      3. Ten Commands to Try
      4. Reading This Book
         1. Standard Input and Output
         2. Keystrokes
         3. Long lines
         4. Your friend, the echo command
         5. Quick help
   2. Running the Terminal
   3. The Filesystem
      1. Structure of the Filesystem
      2. Navigating the Filesystem
      3. Home Directories in the Filesystem
      4. System Directories in the Filesystem
         1. Directory path part 1: category
         2. Directory path part 2: scope
         3. Directory path part 3: application
      5. File Protections
   4. The Shell
      1. The Shell Versus Programs
      2. Selected Features of the bash Shell
         1. Wildcards
         2. Brace expansion
         3. Shell variables
         4. Search path
         5. Aliases
         6. Input/output redirection
         7. Pipes
         8. Combining commands
         9. Quoting
         10. Escaping
         11. Command-line editing
         12. Command history
         13. Filename completion
      3. Shell Job Control
      4. Killing a Command in Progress
      5. Terminating a Shell
      6. Tailoring Shell Behavior
2. 2. Commands
   1. Basic File Operations
   2. Directory Operations
   3. File Viewing
   4. File Creation and Editing
      1. Creating a File Quickly
      2. Your Default Editor
   5. File Properties
   6. File Text Manipulation
   7. File Location
   8. File Compression and Packaging
   9. File Comparison
   10. Printing
   11. Disks and Filesystems
   12. Viewing Processes
   13. Controlling Processes
   14. Scheduling Jobs
   15. Users and Their Environment
   16. Becoming the Superuser
   17. Group Management
   18. Host Information
   19. Host Location
   20. Network Connections
   21. Email Commands
   22. Web Commands
   23. Messaging
   24. Screen Output
   25. Math and Calculations
   26. Dates and Times
3. 3. Advanced Topics
   1. Running a Shell Remotely
      1. Enabling remote logins
      2. Logging in remotely with SSH
      3. SSH roadblocks
   2. Installing Software with a Package Manager
      1. Obtaining an Apple Developer ID
      2. Installing Xcode
      3. Installing Command Line Tools for Xcode
      4. Installing the Homebrew Package Manager
      5. Using Homebrew
      6. Installing from TAR Files
   3. Programming with Shell Scripts
      1. Creating and Running Shell Scripts
      2. Whitespace and Linebreaks
      3. Variables
      4. Input and Output
      5. Booleans and Return Codes
         1. test and “[”
         2. true and false
      6. Conditionals
      7. Loops
      8. Break and Continue
      9. Command-Line Arguments
      10. Exiting with a Return Code
      11. Beyond Shell Scripting
   4. Getting Help
   5. Final Words
      1. Acknowledgments
4. Index
5. About the Author
6. Copyright