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Running behind the slick Mac OS X Aqua GUI is Darwin, the POSIX-compliant, UNIXbased environment that forms the foundation of Mac OS X. While the majority of Mac OS X users never find it necessary to use the command line, for those that are willing to learn there is whole new world of powerful computing awaiting.
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© 2011 Scott Meyers and Mike Lee
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Mayers, S., Lee, M. (2011). Introducing Darwin and the Mac OS X Command Line. In: Learn OS X Lion. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3763-1_23
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