Mac OS X Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tricks

! (bang), in history substitution command 

"" (double quotes), enclosing directory names that contain spaces 

#, prefacing comment lines in Apache 

$ (dollar sign), end-of-line pattern indicator 

< > (angle brackets)

    > (redirection) operator 

    >> (append) operator 

    << for here documents 

* filename wildcard 

. (dot)

    .. (referring to parent directory) 

    .. and /, moving up multiple levels with 

    copying file to current directory 

    file names beginning with  2nd 

.app files 

.Mac membership 

    Backup application with 

    cost of 

    free music in iDisk 

.psync.db file 

.tcshrc file 

/ (slash)

    combining with .. to move multiple directory levels 

    delimiting subdirectories 

    root directory

        moving to 

        permissions for sendmail 

/etc directory 

    /etc/hostconfig file 

        Apache web server enabled 

        MAILSERVER line 

    /etc/httpd/dav/ directory

        users, creating 

        write permission for server 

    /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file 

        ACGI Dispatcher, adding 

        configuring WebDAV 

        editing Apache configuration 

    /etc/httpd/users/ files 

    /etc/inetd.conf file 

    /etc/init.d directory, lacking in Mac OS X 

    /etc/mail/access file 

    /etc/mail/config.mc file

        DontBlameSendmail configuration parameter 

        editing to use specific domain name 

        LUSER_RELAY 

        sending all mail through ISP mail server 

    /etc/mail/local-host-names file 

    /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file 

    /etc/mail/update file 

    /etc/modules file

        adding airport to 

        installing new Linux kernel 

    /etc/network/interfaces, configuring for wireless 

    /etc/passwd and etc/group files 

    /private/etc/crontab 

    system crontab file 

/Library/Webserver/CGI-Executables/  2nd 

/Library/Webserver/Documents/ 

/private/etc/crontab 

/Users/Shared/PostgreSQL/data/pg_hba.conf file 

/usr/local/src directory (Apache and mod_perl sources) 

: (colon), in the prompt  2nd 

\ (backslash)

    delimiting Windows subdirectories 

    Unix, special properties of 

\r (carriage return) 

^ (caret)

    ^M linebreak for Macintosh 

    beginning-of-line pattern indicator 

^M linebreak for Macintosh 

| (pipe) character 

    counting files, use in 

~ , referring to home directory 

~, referring to home directory 

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