Mac OS X Leopard Phrasebook – Essential Codes and Commands – Developer Library Series

Reviewed by Robert Pritchett

Author: Brian Tiemann

Addison-Wesley Professional

http://www.awprofessional.com

http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672329549

$620 USD, $14CND, £14 GBP, €14,67 Euro

Published: November 26, 2007

Pages: 320

ISBN-10: 0672329549

ISBN-13: 978-0672329548

Strengths: Presents Command Line phrases for the non-GUI side of Mac OS X.

Weaknesses: None found.

Introduction

“Mac OS X Leopard Phrasebook gives you the complete command phrases you need to take full advantage of the Leopard’s hidden and undocumented power underneath the graphical user interface: time-saving solutions for effectively working with files, folders, the Finder, Spotlight, text files, servers, disks, CDs/DVDs, permissions, printing, applications, Exposé, networking, security, etc.”

About the book…

Impress your geeky Linux friends with command line interface (CLI) phrases that puts you squarely in their camp. This will quiet the “Linux will rule!” Linux fanatics and stop them cold because you can do what they can do.

Do everything in the CLI that you can do under the GUI side of Mac OS X using the keyboard instead of the mouse.

Do you think I’m kidding? Try editing a text file in Nano (enhancement of Pico and replacement for vi). Stop paying for upgrades to Stuffit and do compressed Zip and archiving or learn to ping for network connectivity and transfer files securely using SCP instead of SFTP. No, it is not that hard to do.

Conclusion

Get geeky with this book. With codes and commands.