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Welian Mac have a beginner's guide to the Terminal.....

Why do so many websites, magazines, and even books, describe this activity as "learning the Terminal"? The OS-X Terminal application is but one GUI that provides access (with font changes, scrolling, etc) to one of many standard Unix shells. The user has a choice of Terminal-like applications, and even a choice of shells, and yet a variety of websites written in the pacifying tone of David Frith claim that the all-powerful Terminal provides commands to copy, rename, list, and delete files, change permissions, perform backups.... when, of course, each of these is an individual command, invoked by the shell, which is just viewed by Terminal. Unix/X11 users don't read articles entitled "Learning the xterm".

I feel that new OS-X users are being "denied" access to the wealth of existing, quality literature about Unix shells, Unix commands, and their choices. Is it a marketing trick. a perception that OS-X users need more hand-holding, or partial ignorance by the authors?