OSX - Getting Started

Macintosh OSX is based on Unix, so given the proper interface, your interactions with your Mac can look almost exactly like the interactions you learned in the Linux tutorial. To open a shell on your Mac, run the program "Terminal" in the "Utilities" folder in your "Applications" folder. You can now try out some of the commands in the Linux tutorial on your Mac.

Caveat

Consider yourself warned, however, that the Terminal interface makes it very easy to accidentally do something drastic and irrepairable -- erase all your documents, for example. In order to give yourself a bit more protection, talk to the TAs about setting "noclobber", and aliasing some of the more dangerous common programs such as "rm".