Can anyone suggest me a handbook of mac terminal commands

Guyz I am new user of mac and I like to use the terminal. Can anyone kindly suggest me any handbook or codebook for learning basic mac terminal commands?

Spend some time in a book store that has a section of Unix/Linux oriented computer books. Find a book that discusses the Bash Shell (Bourne Again Shell; in tribute to Bourne, who wrote one of the first shell's to be popular on Unix). Bash is the default shell for Mac OS X. Such a book will give you the basics of using the shell. Most of the commands they will teach you about will work on Mac OS X, although you may run into a few commands that have slightly different options, the basics are still going to be the same.
Or a book on shell programming.
Anyway, browse the books and if you find one that "Speaks to You", then buy it.
There are also some "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" books available that might give some Mac OS X specific Unix usage, but they also may assume a lot of existing command line knowledge.
The key think to keep in mind, is that 85% to 90% of the Mac OS X command line interface is just like every other Unix/Linux command line interface. Of course that last 10 - 15% can trip you up, and relates to specific commands and command options that may vary between Unix/Linux implementations. That being said, a lot of knowledge about another Unix/Linux platform is transferable to the Mac OS X command line.

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