I can recommend installing iTerm and Midnight Commander for Mac. Then you control all the operations 100% the Linux way.
iTerm:
http://iterm.sourceforge.net/
MC installer:
http://louise.hu/poet/?p=4015
http://rudix.googlecode.com/files/mc-4.7.1-2.dmg
Or you can use MacPorts / Fink for compiling from sources.
After installing MC start iTerm and type there mc