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I found this great little tutorial on the basics of navigating the command line interface in OS X. For those of you switching - the Terminal program, located in Applications => Utilities is the equivalent of the Command Prompt in Windows XP. Since OS X is built on top of a variation of OpenBSD, known as Darwin, you'll find that the Terminal doesn't use the traditional commands that you might be accustomed to if you cut your teeth on DOS. The great thing about learning the OS X Terminal is that the lessons translate easily into the command line utilities of other UNIX-like operating systems, including Linux. Although the majority of basic tasks can be performed exclusively in the GUI of OS X, for those wishing to graduate to "power user" status or do advanced troubleshooting, a working knowledge of the Terminal is absolutely essential.
I hope you find this useful.
I hope you find this useful.