To get deeper into the subjects in this chapter, you should refer to the following books:
Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell, by Andy Lester, et al. (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2005)
Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger, by Dave Taylor (O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2005)
You may also want to check out the following manpages:
find
locate
grep
mdfind
ls
chown
chmod
sticky
chflags
GetFileInfo
SetFile
mdls