man
- display online documentation (“manual pages”) for a command.
Example:
man ls
displays detailed documentation on the ls command
apropos
- list the manual pages relating to a particular keyword.
Example:
apropos file
list manual pages that mention “file” in their
summary line.
find
- Scan a directory structure for files matching certain criteria, and
either print their names or do nearly anything else with them. [...]
By Gordon Davisson
Copyright (c) 2002, Westwind Computing inc.
more and less
- display the contents of a text file, one screenful at a time (hit the
spacebar to get the next screen). Note that this only works well with plain
text files, not Word files, RTF’s, PDF’s, or anything else that contains
formatting information. less also allows you [...]
ps
- List the processes running on the system
Examples:
ps
List processes belonging to the current user that
are attached to a terminal (not very useful under OS X)
ps -x
List processes belonging to the current user
whether or not they’re attached to a terminal
ps -ax
List all running processes
ps -aux
List all running processes, with additional
information about their resource useage
top
- List the [...]
There are two styles of shells on most UNIX (and Linux) systems:
Those derived from the original bourne shell (sh) which include bash, ksh etc.
and those derived from the C shell which include csh, tsch, etc. The difficulty
for many beginners is that these two families of shells support different syntax
for setting variables in the [...]
By Rob Griffiths
Every program you’re using on your Mac (obviously) uses some portion of your CPU. And the more you’re asking a given program to do, generally speaking, the more of your CPU it will use. For instance, Safari with one window open isn’t going to load your CPU too heavily. But open seven new [...]
cp
– Copy a file (or directory).
Notes:
The cp command does not understand all of the characteristics
of files on HFS+ partitions, and will not completely copy files that have
resource forks, type&creator codes, or other Mac-specific characteristics.
To fully copy such files, use the Finder, or the
ditto -rsrcFork command.
If a file already exists under the name given for [...]
Compiling the GTK+ Libraries —
How to compile GTK+ itself
Building GTK+ on UNIX-like systems
This chapter covers building and installing GTK+ on UNIX and
UNIX-like systems such as Linux. Compiling GTK+ on Microsoft
Windows is different in detail and somewhat more difficult to
get going since the necessary tools aren’t included with
the operating system.
Before we get into [...]
