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Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther |
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bash isn't necessarily the default shell |
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2004-09-04 14:40:47 |
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Anonymous Reader
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In general this book is quite good. Matisse Enzer's Peachpit title "Unix on OS X" (or something like that) would be a good companion.
I wasn't too thrilled with the organization of the content: customizing your shell and editing environment variables seems like appendix material for the kind of user this book is geared to, not Chapter 1 contents. And an entire chapter on printing seems a bit much; new Unix users are almost certainly going to be printing using the good old Mac UI.
And one little gotcha that turned out to be quite important for me: bash is not the default shell in Panther if you've upgraded from Jaguar as I did. In that case tcsh is. Might be worth including this in future editions (although I guess there will be fewer and fewer of us upgraders as time goes on...)
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