After working through Practical Computing for Biologist, I've been turned on to using the Linux shell on my MacBook. A immediately useful feature is being able to run a while script in R without having to open the file.
A short and helpful book for learning more about the shell is Learning Unix for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition from O'Reilly. This was published in 2002 and and is superseded by more recent editions on Tiger and Leopard, but for beginners and dabblers I'm guessing this older (and cheaper) edition is probably just fine (Isn't one of the reasons to use Linux is that it doesn't change much?).
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