In Bed with Unix
I picked up a copy of OíReillyís Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther the other day. Iíve only really read through the first few chapters but itís interesting stuff.
Before Apple jumped into bed with Unix, and OS 9 died a slow death, my knowledge of Unix and the command line amounted to precisely bugger all, and, more significantly, it scared the bejesus out of me (whereís the icons? whereís my desktop? what did I do??).
Those days have now gone though, and Iíve become really impressed at the flexibility and power of the Unix system. The other day I set up an alias in my .tschrc file to connect and download a remote MySQL database ó woohoo!
Posted 4 years, 8 months ago on 6th February 2004.
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behold, the power of the command line. i mean, sometimes, you just need to do:
foreach x (foo_[0-4][0-9].dat)
grep interesting_line $x > ${x}_interest.dat
end
I bought the first edition of Learning UNIX for Mac OS X. A very good book, as with most O'Reilly titles. However, my copy is a little out of date now that bash is the default shell in Panther.
BTW, if you want to create aliases in bash you have to edit the ~/.profile file with a line like:
alias seti="/usr/bin/setiathome -verbose";
Tommy · www · 4 years, 8 months ago