Question

So, I am started to get settled into everyday life with my Mac now and want to be able to utilise the power of the terminal.

Can you provide any good tutorials or sources which will help me learn?

Thank you

Answer

Local files

• /usr/share/doc/bash/bashref.html – Bash Reference Manual
• /usr/share/doc/bash/bash.html – man bash

Guides or tutorials

• mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide (from Greg’s Wiki, for beginners)
• tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html
• tldp.org/LDP/abs/html – Advanced Bash Scripting Guide

Lists of commands and tips

• commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes
• Got any tips or tricks for Terminal in Mac OS X? – Apple – Stack Exchange
• What are useful Command-line Commands on Mac OS X? – Server Fault
• leftcolumn.net/2009/02/15/40-useful-mac-os-x-shell-scripts-and-terminal–commands
• michael-hogg.co.uk/os_x_terminal.php (overviews of the options and usage of a few commands)

Specific topics

• tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internalvariables.html
• tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html
• skorks.com/2009/09/bash-shortcuts-for-maximum-productivity (readline shortcuts)
• wttools.sourceforge.net/emacs-stuff/emacs-keybindings.html
• grymoire.com/Unix/Find.html
• grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
• sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
• Customizing Your Bash Command Prompt – Super User Blog
• CodeSnippets: Searching with grep & Spotlight’s kMDItemDisplayName
• imagemagick.org/Usage

Searching for help

• If you use less to view man pages, press h to show a list of keyboard shortcuts
  • q exits less
  • b and f scroll a page backward or forward
  • / starts a search
  • p and n go to the previous or next search result
• Add stackoverflow.com/search?q=[shell]+or+[bash]+{query} somewhere like OmniBox or Alfred
• help <builtin>

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