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<h1><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style=
"color: blue; text-shadow: 4px 4px 3px #666;"><big><big>Some Useful Unix
Links to help you get started:</big></big></font></h1>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br /></font> <font face=
"Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><big><b style=
"text-shadow: 4px 4px 3px #666;">General Unix
Links:</b></big></font>
<blockquote><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/">Unix tutorial for
beginners</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://alpha2.bmc.uu.se/usf/unix_for_beginners.html">Unix
for beginners</a> by Gerard J. Kleywegt (written by an X-ray
crystallographer). Comprehensive.<br />
<br />
<a href=
"http://people.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/~tickle/notes/unix-beg.html">Unix for
beginners</a> by Ian Tickle (written by an X-ray
crystallographer). Some Dos/unix conversions.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/">Unixhelp for Users</a>
&nbsp;Edinburgh Univ. &nbsp;(a bit more advanced)<br />
<br />
<a href="shells.html">A
note about Unix Shells</a> &nbsp;My page. &nbsp;(brief notes about
[t]csh vs. sh-type shells).<br />
<br />
Apple's <a href=
"http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology_Overview/CommandLine/chapter_8_section_1.html">
Command Line Primer</a> covers basic shell concepts, frequently
used commands, environment variables, and running
programs.<br /></font></blockquote>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style=
"text-shadow: 4px 4px 3px #666;">General Unix Books:</font></h3>
<blockquote><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunix5/">Learning the Unix
Operating System</a>, 5th ed. &nbsp;(good for the absolute
beginner).<br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcsh/">Using csh and tcsh</a> (the
next most basic book, but has a lot of useful stuff in it). tcsh
was the default shell in Jaguar and is available in Panther.&nbsp;
(Use <span style=
"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace; font-weight: bold;">chsh
-s tcsh</span> to switch back to it.)<br />
<br />
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Guide/">Guide to zsh</a> (A free, on-line,
and extremely well-written pdf and html book on the best shell ever
invented.)<br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://tinyurl.com/3j668">From Bash to Z shell</a> An excellent
more advanced introductory book, written by the zsh folks, that
gives a highly useful introduction to bash (the default shell in
Panther and Tiger) and zsh (what should have been the default shell
in Panther and Tiger).<br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixnut3/">Unix in a Nutshell</a>
(a useful reference).<br /></font></font></blockquote>
<br />
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style=
"text-shadow: 4px 4px 3px #666;">Augmenting Unix on OS
X<br /></font></h3>
<blockquote><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/%7Ewgscott/setting_up_OS_X.html">Here
are a set of pages</a> with copious links that I put together that
describe how to install Apple's X-windows, gcc and g77 compilers,
the package manager system called Fink, and a few other things.
Although these enhancements are not "required" to use unix on OS X,
you will soon find that you cannot live without
them.</font></blockquote>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style=
"text-shadow: 4px 4px 3px #666;">Books and tutorials specific to
Mac OS X Unix:</font></h3>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Mac OS X has brought the
world of unix to a new set of users, and it has some non-canonical
quirks. &nbsp;Here are some helpful books:<br />
<br /></font>
<blockquote><a href=
"http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/index.ws"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
Mac OS X Unix Tutorial</font></a><br />
<br />
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx2/">Learning Unix for
Mac OS X</a>, 2nd Edition &nbsp;(Very basic treatment for an
absolute beginner.)<br />
<br />
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/collections/unix.html">O'Reilly Mac Dev Center: Unix on
Mac OS X</a>, 2nd Edition &nbsp;(A nice collection of resources, from beginning to 
advanced.)<br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxtigerunix/">Mac OS X for Unix
Geeks</a> &nbsp;(introduce OS X to unix-oriented folks).<br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201795353/qid=1055978736/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/104-0048636-6427149?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846">
Unix for Mac OS X</a>: &nbsp;Visual QuickPro Guide -- a couple of
chapers are on line here: &nbsp;</font><a href=
"http://www.matisse.net/OSX/TOC.html"><font face=
"Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Unix for Mac OS X</font></a><br />
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br /></font> <font face=
"Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672327465">OS X Unleashed,
4th ed.</a> (basic to advanced). A large, very comprehensive book
with stuff for beginners and more seasoned folks.<br /></font><br />
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://kerbaugh.uncfsu.edu/garys_picks.html">Gary Kerbaugh's
Picks:</a> A Valuable Suggested Reading List for OS X Unix<br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/24/bash.html">Bash
on Mac OS X</a>: O'Reilly macdevcenter.com
tutorial<br /></font><br />
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"zsh.html">Zsh on OS
X</a> (My propaganda and how-to page for using the best user shell
ever invented on the best operating system ever
invented).<br /></font></blockquote>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br /></font>
<h3><font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style=
"text-shadow: 4px 4px 3px #666;">Some customization
suggestions:<br /></font></font></h3>
<br />
<blockquote><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Here are
<a href=
"useful_stuff.html">some
OS X applications and hacks</a> that I can't live without.<br />
<br />
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Here are some ways to
make the <a href=
"terminal_finder_interactions.html">
terminal-finder interactions</a> more integrated.<br />
<br />
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/%7Ewgscott/mystuff/zsh_files.html">Configuring
zsh on OS X</a> is easy with these drop-in scripts that work "out
of the box."<br /></font></font></font></blockquote>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style=
"text-shadow: 4px 4px 3px #666;">Shell Scripting and scripting
languages:</font></h3>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br />
Unix shell commands can be put together to make fairly elaborate
programs that you execute from a file called a shell script.
&nbsp;These programs do not need to be compiled and are generally
pretty easy to read and modify for your own needs. Here are a few
places to start:<br />
<br /></font>
<blockquote><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Unix <a href=
"http://www.codebox.8m.com/shellscripting.htm">shell
scripting</a><br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Mendel
Cooper's <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">Advanced Bash
Scripting Guide</a> (A definitive source for sh-type
scripting.)<br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Python
scripting <a href=
"http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html">tutorial</a><br />
<br /></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href=
"http://starship.python.net/crew/hinsen/">Python for
Science</a><br /></font></blockquote>
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