February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
English
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Chapter 1. Inside the Terminal
The Terminal application
(/Applications/Utilities) is Mac OS
X’s graphical terminal emulator. Inside the
Terminal, Unix users will find a familiar command-line environment. In this
chapter we describe Terminal’s capabilities and
compare them to the corresponding xterm
functionality when appropriate. We also highlight key features of two
alternative Aqua-native terminal applications, GLterm and iTerm. The
chapter concludes with a synopsis of the shell command,
open, which you can use to launch GUI
applications.
Mac OS X Shells
Mac OS
X comes with the Bourne-again shell
(
bash) as the default
user shell, and also includes the
TENEX C shell (
tcsh) and the Z shell
(
zsh). Both
bash and zsh are
sh-compatible. When tcsh is
invoked through the csh link, it behaves much
like csh. Similarly,
/bin/sh
is a hard link to bash, which also reverts to
traditional behavior when invoked through this link (see the
bash manpage).
If you install additional shells, you should add them to
/etc/shells. To
change the Terminal’s default shell, see Section 1.4, later in this chapter. To
change a user’s default shell (used for both the
Terminal and remote and console logins), see Section 3.7.5 in Chapter 3.
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