[DM-MUG] review--Take Control of the Mac Command line in Terminal

[Ray Bowler]

Here is another of the very useful books which you can buy and  
download from <www.takecontrolbooks.com>. It is written for those who  
want to know more about the command line using terminal and who to do  
things which cannot be job done in the Finder. It is well worth the  
money and the time to look at a powerful tool which can be useful.

This book starts with the very basics of how to use the terminal and  
how to configure one of more sessions to suit your needs. From there  
you can proceed to using commands which are useful. For instance sudu  
lsof -i lists all of the programs which are accessing the network or  
the internet. Having trouble ejecting a CD/DVD? drutil eject will do  
the job. The book also explains how to use "man" to find out the  
syntax of a command. I just noticed that the ls (list) command can  
include a parameter to show you the last time a file was used (not  
when it was modified).

One lack in this book was that I did not find any way to find all the  
commands available. At the meeting tonight CW and Jon pointed out that  
if I use google and type "bash followed by what I want to do I can  
find the command. The other lack is an index. Without scanning the  
whole book I cannot find some of the things which I know are there but  
cannot find with the search.

Ray Bowler

rbowler.home.mchsi.com