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Leopard Guides: Scripting & Automation
Mac OS X Server scripting and automation tools help simplify system administration. System administrators can use these tools to manage users and groups, partition and manage disks, monitor and control Macintosh clients, manage Xserve RAID, and manage Xsan file systems. Administrators can also use command-line tools to administer a server using a UNIX command shell.

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Shell Scripting Primer (HTML) (PDF)
A guided tour of (Bourne) shell scripting, including control structures, numerical computation, regular expressions, subroutines, and error handling.
2009-04-08
System Startup Programming Topics (HTML) (PDF)
Explains the boot process used to initialize the Mac OS X operating system.
2008-11-19