Not sure what you mean interactive - trying things out on bash itself is a good way to learn. I put together a (quite long) single-webpage not-so-quick guide to

Not sure what you mean interactive - trying things out on bash itself is a good way to learn. I put together a (quite long) single-webpage not-so-quick guide to bash shell,[0] which covers a lot of the basic stuff (well, with separate pages for grep/sed and AWK), at the bottom of the page are links to the best bash websites and names of the best books that I've found. Hope that's of some use. But yeah, the man pages become perfectly adequate guides/refreshers once you've learnt the basics of a command/tool - especially using them with "/" for searching for what you want. [0] http://www.adamponting.com/mac-terminal/ http://www.adamponting.com/mac-terminal/