February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
383 pages
11h 49m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second Edition
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Using the Terminal
The
first order of business when exploring a new flavor of Unix is to
find the command prompt. In Mac OS X, you
won’t find the command prompt in the Dock or on a
Finder menu. The Terminal application is instead located in the
/Applications/Utilities
directory. Don’t open it just yet, though. First,
drag the Terminal’s application icon to the
Dock so you’ll have quick
access to it when you need to use the Terminal. To launch the
Terminal, click its icon in the Dock once, or double-click on its
icon in the Finder view.
Tip
The full path to the Terminal is
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, although
the Finder hides the
.app extension.
Terminal.app is not a binary file. Instead,
it’s a Mac OS X
package
,
which contains a collection of files, including the binary and
support files. You can Control-click (or right-click) on the Terminal
in the Finder and select Show Package Contents to see
what’s inside. You can alternatively use the
standard UNIX commands ls and
cd to explore the directory
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/.
After the Terminal starts, you’ll be greeted by the
banner message from /etc/motd and a
bash prompt, as shown in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1. The Terminal window
Launching Terminals
One difference
xterm users will notice is that there is no obvious way to launch a new Terminal window from the command line. For example, the Mac OS X Terminal has ...
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