The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Contents at a Glance -- See What's on the Command Line -- Contents -- Introduction -- Mac OS X and FreeBSD -- Nothing but Text -- Who this Book Is For -- Using this Book -- What this Book Isn't -- Typographical Conventions -- System Requirements -- Chapter 1: A Guided Tour of the Command Line -- Opening Terminal -- Typing Your First Command -- Summing Up -- Chapter 2: Using Terminal -- What Is Terminal? -- Setting Up Terminal -- Terminal Preferences -- Working with Terminal Windows -- Using -- Files -- Using a Different Terminal -- Summing Up -- Interlude 1: Command Syntax -- Chapter 3: Getting Help while in Terminal -- Finding Out What a Command Does with -- Using man Pages -- Summing Up -- Interlude 2: Names and Paths -- Chapter 4: Navigating the File System -- About the Mac OS X File System -- Finding Where You Are with -- Changing Directories with -- Summing Up -- Interlude 3: Redirecting Input and Output -- Chapter 5: Working with Files and Directories -- Copying Files with -- Moving Files and Directories with -- Creating Directories with -- Removing Directories with -- Removing Files with -- Aliases and Links -- Copying Directories with -- Summing Up -- Interlude 4: Cloning Your Mac OS X Startup Volume -- Chapter 6: Saving Time on the Command Line -- Using Filename Completion -- Using Command Completion -- Using Command History -- Keyboard Shortcuts in Terminal -- Summing Up -- Interlude 5: The Versatile open Command -- Chapter 7: Finding Files, Directories, and Everything Else -- Finding Files in Mac OS X -- Finding Files with -- Finding Anything with -- Finding File Contents with -- Summing Up -- Interlude 6: Wildcards and Globbing -- The *Wildcard -- The ? Wildcard -- The [ ] Wildcard -- The { } Characters -- Testing Wildcards -- Escaping Wildcards.

Wildcard Summary -- Chapter 8: Viewing Files -- Finding Out What Kind of Files You Have with -- Viewing Files with cat -- Viewing the Beginning of a File with head -- Viewing the End of a File with tail -- Viewing Files with less -- Summing Up -- Chapter 9: Editing Text -- Counting Words, Lines, and Characters with wc -- Sorting Lines with sort -- Removing Repeated Lines with uniq -- Comparing Files with diff -- Replacing Characters with tr -- Formatting Files with fmt -- Editing Text with sed -- Text Editors -- Editing Text with Pico -- Editing Text with vi -- Editing Text with Emacs -- Summing Up -- Chapter 10: Printing -- About Printing with Mac OS X -- Printing Files with lp -- Checking the Printer Queue with lpq -- Canceling Print Jobs with cancel -- Managing Printers from the Command Line -- Printing from Terminal -- Summing Up -- Chapter 11: Compressing, Decompressing, and Archiving Files -- About Compressed Files -- Compressing Files with gzip -- Compressing Files with bzip2 -- Creating Archives with tar -- Managing Disk Image Archives with hdiutil -- Summing Up -- Chapter 12: Working with Users, Groups, and Permissions -- About Users -- Creating User Accounts -- About Groups -- About Permissions -- Changing the Owner of a File -- Changing File Permissions -- Setting a Directory's Sticky Bit -- Summing Up -- Interlude 7: Using -- Chapter 13: Using the Network -- Local Network Tools -- Internet Tools -- Network Utilities -- Securing Your Mac with the ipfw Firewall -- Summing Up -- Chapter 14: Managing Programs and Processes -- Getting System Information with top -- Getting System Information with ps -- Shutting Down Processes with kill -- Summing Up -- Chapter 15: System Maintenance from the Command Line -- Getting System Information -- Managing Disks and Volumes with diskutil -- Repairing Disk Problems with fsck.

Blessing a System Folder with bless -- Running Periodic Maintenance Routines with periodic -- Updating and Installing Software -- Summing Up -- Interlude 8: Using the Developer Tools -- Chapter 16: Configuring the Shell -- Working with the Shell -- Configuring the Shell -- Summing Up -- Interlude 9: Automating Commands -- Appendix A: Further Reading -- Mac OS X -- General Unix Books -- Shell Scripting -- Books on Specific Unix Tools -- Index.