[X4U] Terminal for dummies (was: Safari - not remembering visited links)

[John Baltutis]

On 06/11/05, revDAVE <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/05 1:24 AM, "John Baltutis" <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> You might want to review the terminal chmod command. In your particular
>> case, you'd cd ~/Library/Preferences/, check which .plist files don't show
>> -rw at the beginning when you do a ls -l command, and then enter chmod 600
>> (followed by the name of a file which doesn't have read & write privileges
>> for the user).
>
> -  using the terminal basically scares me ...  I have no Unix background.

It shouldn't. It's just another applicaltion.

> is there some sort of " terminal for dummies " URL that can help get started?

I recommend starting with An Introduction to Tiger Terminal at
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/20/terminal1.html> and then
any other Terminal App and Unix document at
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/collections/unix.html>.