A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the Mac terminal and Bash environment specifically designed for novice Mac users

This is a comprehensive course designed to show how to use the Terminal app in Mac OS X and many Bash shell commands, many overlap with Linux or other *nix variants.


The course currently covers the following:

Setup and installation of tools used in this course (outside the Terminal app)
How to navigate while in the Terminal (file and directory oriented)
How to manage files and directories (create, edit, delete, etc)
Temporarily elevating to admin rights when needed
Changing permissions on files and folders
Writing simple Bash scripts
Each one of these concepts is demonstrated in a methodological, step-by-step manner so you can follow along for easy learning.