On Tuesday, Jun 14, 2005, at 10:20 Australia/Perth, Steven w wrote:

Good morning group,
Is there any specific reference books for Mac Unix
that could be recommended for a novice?

Hi Steven.

O'Reilly have some good stuff on this...

Start here:
"Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther"
Dave Taylor, Brian Jepson
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixpanther/index.html>

an older, but still useful reference:
<http://www.matisse.net/OSX/>

Not for a novice, but plenty of good info here:
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/?CMP=IL7015>

and look at:

<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/macforunix.html>
for the top ten unix tips.

HTH

Cheers,

Steve.