Learning Unix for Mac OS X

I doubt I'll ever learn command line Unix. I just don't need to use it that often. I open a terminal window once a month at most, to paste in a cryptic Unix command copied from a website.

But being somewhat curious about what these commands mean, I picked up a copy of "Learning Unix for Mac OS X." Two things attracted me to it. First, as the title states, this is a book about learning Unix for Mac users. Second, and more importantly, it's only 130 pages. That made it much more approachable than most Unix books I've seen, which are big enough to soak up a bathtub of water.

It took me about an hour to skim, and I learned what obscure terms like grep and sudo mean, and what pipes are. I'm sure I'll forget again, but I know where to go if I need to relearn them.

There is a newer edition out, called Learning Unix for Mac OS Tiger, but it is 280 pages long. I don't think I'll buy that. I have all I want in my version, at least for now. Link