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Running behind the slick Mac OS X Aqua interface is a powerful component of Mac OS X called Darwin. This is Apple’s name for the UNIX underpinnings of the OS. The most direct way to interact with Darwin and take full advantage of all those wonderfully powerful UNIX tools is through the use of the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal). When Terminal is launched, it will open up a terminal window running a shell program, as shown in Figure 18-1.
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© 2008 Scott Meyers and Mike Lee
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(2008). Introducing Darwin and the Shell. In: Mac OS X Leopard. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0255-4_18
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