Tweak Your Mac Terminal: Command Line macOS

ISBN-13: 9781484261705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 535 str.

Daniel Platt

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Chapter 1: System Setup and Requirements

·      Introduction

·      Requirements

·      Installing XCode

·      Resources

 

Chapter 2: Basics of the Terminal

·      Where is the terminal

·      What is the terminal

·      Built-in manual

·      Text editor

·      What is a shell?

·      Moving around

·      The filesystem

o   Pwd

o   Cd

·      Permissions

 

 

Chapter 3: Customizing Your Terminal

·      Customising the look (background/foreground colour)

·      Aliases

·      Paths

·      Ln – Aliases / shortcuts

·      Prompt

 

Chapter 4: Built in Commands Provided by macOS

·      Lsof – Eject a drive with an open file

·      Which – where is your command?

·      Open

·      Say

·      Sysctl for system state

·      Compression – gz, zip

·      Finding content in files

·      Find a file name

·      Search and replace - Sed

·      Spot the difference in text files – Diff

·      Copy and paste

·      Built-in Psychotherapist (emacs)

·      Downloading files

·      Scheduling with launchd

·      Running processes

·      Sudo

·      Pretending website is somewhere else

·      Remote shell

 

Chapter 5: Brew

·      What brew is

·      Why use brew

·      Installing brew

·      Finding applications in brew

·      Installing applications from brew

·      Brew maintenance

·      When things go wrong

 

Chapter 6: Extra Applications

·      Tmux

·      Cowsay

·      Figlet

·      Lolcat

·      Archey

·      Linux utilities missing from macOS

·      head, tail

·      formatting xml, json files

·      grep

 

Chapter 7: Services

·      Using terminal to access content

·      Weather

·      Star Wars

 

 

Chapter 8: Oh My Zsh

·      What is oh My Zsh

·      Installation

·      Themes

·      Plugins

 

 

Chapter 9: Programming Languages

·      Bash

·      PHP

·      Python

·      Build a few simple terminal games in different languages

 

Chapter 10: Web Development

·      Why

·      Nginx

·      MySQL

·      WordPress

·      Putting it live

                             

Chapter 11: Version Control

·      What is version control

·      Getting started

·      Using other repository

·      Publishing your repository

·      Using application

 

 

Chapter 12: Going Further

·      Replace terminal with iTerm2

·      Ideas for customising the terminal 

·      Programming Languages

O autorze

​Daniel Platt is a software developer and system admin. Much of his time is spent writing code and setting up computers. He is a Senior Software Engineer at Comparison Technologies Ltd. and has spent a lifetime working with computers keeping on the bleeding edge of technology.

Blurb

Look beyond the basics of Mac programming and development to become a Mac power user. When most people think about the Mac, they think about the amazing graphical user interface macOS is known for. However, there is a whole world to explore beneath the hood. This book approaches working directly in the terminal with fun projects and ideas to help turn you into an advanced Mac user. 

You'll work with Brew (HomeBrew), which gives you the ability to install applications from Linux (and Unix) that can make the terminal more useful. This is important, because a lot of applications have been stripped out of macOS or deprecated. For example, Apple's built-in PHP is usually a major release behind. You'll also customize your terminal to change everything about it, making it your own. The whole world is about personalizing. Why put up with the Apple defaults?  

Once you have your terminal set up and ready to rock, you'll review the basics of programming on the Mac terminal. This will allow you to get a taste of power scripting. You'll discover the power of bash, PHP, and Python.  And then you'll apply those tools to web development. 

Tweak Your Mac Terminal takes you on a journey into a world of the terminal and its hidden applications. 

You will:

• Customize the terminal to make it perfect for your needs
• Develop web applications using basic coding skills in the terminal
• Install HomeBrew and by extension Linux and Unix applications