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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. Dave maintains three weblogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, focused on business and industry analysis, the eponymous Ask Dave Taylor devoted to tech and business Q&A and The Attachment Parenting Blog, discussing topics of interest to parents. Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.

"Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger" arrives!

In its concise format, this brand new book does a splendid job of showing you why the Unix underneath your pretty Tiger operating system is worth befriending, and how it can will make you a true Mac power user (and more efficient too!)

We now have review copies of Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger available to anyone who has a venue where they can publish their review: if you're interested please don't hesitate to contact me directly with your request! And, yes, widely read blogs count as a publishing venue too, of course.

Here's more information about Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger, to pique your interest:

Preface

1. Why Use Unix?
     The Power of Unix
     Thousands of Free Applications
     Power Internet Connections
     A Simple Guided (Unix) Tour
     The 10 Most Common Unix Commands

2. Using the Terminal
     Launching the Terminal
     Customizing Your Terminal Session
     Working with the Terminal
     Customizing the Shell Environment
     Advanced Shell Customization
     The Unresponsive Terminal

3. Exploring the Filesystem
     The Mac OS X Filesystem
     Listing Files and Directories
     Protecting and Sharing Files
     Changing Your Password
     Superuser Privileges with sudo
     Exploring External Volumes

4. File Management
     File and Directory Names
     File and Directory Wildcards
     Looking Inside Files
     grep
     Creating and Editing Files
     Managing Files

5. Finding Files and Information
     The Oddly Named grep Command
     Finding Files with locate
     Using Find to Explore Your Filesystem
     Shining a Light on Spotlight

6. Redirecting I/O
     Standard Input and Standard Output
     Pipes and Filters
     Printing

7. Multitasking
     Running a Command in the Background
     Checking on a Process
     Canceling a Process
     Launching GUI Applications

8. Taking Unix Online
     Remote Logins
     Transferring Files
     Practice

9. Of Windows and X11
     X11
     X11 and the Internet

10. Open Source Software Via Fink
     Installing Fink
     Using FinkCommander
     Some Picks

11. Where to Go from Here
     Documentation
     Customizing your Unix Experience

Index

We also have a sample chapter online, if you'd like to read about Taking Unix Online (chapter 8, this is a PDF).

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