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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) New to Mac OS X Terminal Post 302262477 by Corona688 on Thursday 27th of November 2008 02:16:03 PM
Old 11-27-2008
Mac OSX has most of the same commands as any other UNIX operating system; ls for listing directories, cd for changing the current directory, chmod for changing permissions, mkdir for making directories and rmdir for removing them, grep for finding text in files and sed for text replacement, man for viewing manual pages... Any general UNIX commandline reference should be able to help you. It also comes with the relatively friendly nano text editor. Where OSX differs from the UNIX commandline is mostly the presence of extra things, not things missing.

You can run 'man commandname' whenever you need to reread details on a specific command, and most manpages also list a few related commands down at the bottom, I recommend browsing through them.

As for editing your history list, the shell keeps its history in a plain text file named .bash_history, edit however you please.
 

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term::receive(n)						 Terminal control						  term::receive(n)

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NAME
term::receive - General input from terminals SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.4 package require term::receive ?0.1? ::term::receive::getch ?chan? ::term::receive::listen cmd ?chan? cmd process string cmd eof ::term::receive::unlisten ?chan? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This package provides the most primitive commands for receiving characters to a terminal. They are in essence convenient wrappers around the builtin commands read and fileevent. ::term::receive::getch ?chan? This command reads a single character from the channel with handle chan and returns it as the result of the command. If not specified chan defaults to stdin. It is the responsibility of the caller to make sure that the channel can provide single characters. On unix this can be done, for example, by using the command of package term::ansi::ctrl::unix. ::term::receive::listen cmd ?chan? This command sets up a filevent listener for the channel with handle chan and invokes the command prefix cmd whenever characters have been received, or EOF was reached. If not specified chan defaults to stdin. The signature of the command prefix is cmd process string This method is invoked when characters were received, and string holds them for processing. cmd eof This method is invoked when EOF was reached on the channel we listen on. It will be the last call to be received by the callback. ::term::receive::unlisten ?chan? This command disables the filevent listener for the channel with handle chan. If not specified chan defaults to stdin. BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category term of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation. KEYWORDS
character input, control, get character, listener, receiver, terminal CATEGORY
Terminal control COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> term 0.1 term::receive(n)
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