Hi Mike, As Chris and Brandon mentioned, there's a lot of answers for specific topics about using the terminal. There isn't a lot posted about the best ways to set up VoiceOver for using Terminal. The best and most extensive posts I've seen on that topic have come from Travis Siegel on the mac-access list. Here's the link to an earlier mail archive post I made here that contains a link to one of Travis' mac-access list posts on "Hints on using terminal". (This dates from before the mac-access list moved over to using the Mail Archive as a secondary archive that is easily searchable). • Re: terminal and voice over http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg45511.html You're welcome to join that list, too. Here's the info page: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/
I think this is the current web page with more information about their current mailing lists and list policies. Note that discussion of Windows related topics have been split off to a separate Windows-access list. http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/Mailing-Lists.html Cheryl's suggestion of the "Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal" eBook is also a good one. Here's the link to their web page description: http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/command-line There is also another recent related eBook on this subject from O'Reilly: • Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion by Dave Taylor (Released: September 2012) This has the subtitle: "Using Unix and Linux Tools at the Command Line" and the URL for the web page is: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025870.do It is also available for purchase from iBooks for $9.99: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/learning-unix-for-os-x-mountain/id563659679?mt=11 I'm not sure whether you would be able to also read this on your computer if you purchased through iBooks, but you might, since O'Reilly does not use any DRM with their books. They also make all their books available to Bookshare, and international Bookshare members can also access all their books. If you create an account and purchase eBooks directly from the O'Reilly web site, you'll be able to download multiple versions (e.g., ePub, mobi, and PDF for this volume), and any errata or minor revisions are always made available through the links on your account. The ePub is readable on your computer as well as on any iOS device. For some other, older books they may offer DAISY versions. These suggestions assume no previous background with Unix or Linux. For Mac users coming from a Linux or Unix background, there are the older O'Reilly books like "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks (Leopard), 4th Edition" by Ernest E. Rothman, Brian Jepson, and Rich Rosen: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596520632.do There's a really old O'Reilly web page dating in 2002 on the "Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks": http://macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/2792 It's still good for a quick summary info, but the default shell has long since changed from tcsh to bash, and the way startup is handled is completely different. One quick tip for Terminal users is that you can use command-c from the Finder GUI to copy the location of a file or folder, and paste it into a command-line argument in your Terminal shell. The full path to that file is always copied that way, so it doesn't matter whether you are in the same directory in Terminal as the file you want to operate on or not. There's also a free "Go2Shell" application from the Mac App Store that will let you launch a Terminal session that opens in the folder you're using in Finder. Here's the URL at the Mac App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/app/go2shell/id445770608?mt=12 HTH. Cheers, Esther >> On Nov 7, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Mike M <blinkin4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Calling all geeks! >>> I have been digging around and trying to heather resources to teach >>> myself how to use Terminal. >>> I have learned some basics but wanted to put out some feelers and see >>> if you guys had some resources that you could recommend. >>> I appreciate any tips and I am off to search archives >>> >>> Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
