Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual

Changing Permissions with Terminal

Permissions is a largely invisible, but hugely important, Mac OS X and Unix feature. The behind-the-scenes permissions setting for a file or folder determines whether or not you're allowed to open it, change it, or delete it. Permissions are the cornerstone of several important Mac OS X features, including the separation of user accounts and the relative invulnerability of the operating system itself.

POWER USERS' CLINIC: The Termination of .term Files?

The ability to save different sets of windows settings is actually nothing new to Terminal. In earlier versions, you could export a .term file that stored a window's (or window group's) settings. Opening the .term file opened a new window (or window group) with those settings.

In Terminal 2, you get easier management for these settings and a different way of storing them. Instead of using a separate file for each setting, Terminal now saves them all in the single com.apple.Terminal.plist file (in ~/Library/Preferences).

If you had any .term files in the standard location (~/Library/ Application Support/Terminal) when you first opened Leopard's Terminal, they still appeared in the Inspector—but Terminal no longer reads them.

Instead, upon Terminal's very first launch, those files' settings are copied into the new com.apple.Terminal.plist file. That's why, after the first time you open Terminal, adding additional .term files to ~/Library/Application Support/ Terminal doesn't make them appear in the Inspector. ...