June 2012
Beginner
227 pages
5h 43m
English
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Ten Commands to Try
To give you a feel for the Terminal, here are 10 simple commands you can try right now. Open the Terminal by visiting your Mac’s Utilities folder (in the Finder menu, choose Go and then Utilities), and double-click the Terminal icon. Then try these commands by typing them at the Terminal prompt. You must type them exactly, including capital and small letters, spaces, and all symbols.
Display a calendar for April, 2015:
➜ cal apr 2015
April 2015
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30List the contents of the Applications folder:
➜ ls /Applications
Address Book.app GarageBand.app Mail.app
App Store.app Image Capture.app TextEdit.app
...Count the number of items in your Documents folder:
➜ ls $HOME/Documents | wc -l
67See how much space is used on your internal hard disk:
➜ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 465Gi 98Gi 366Gi 22% /Watch the processes running on your Mac (type “q” to quit):
➜ topPrint the file /etc/hosts on your default printer, if you have one:
➜ lpr /etc/hostsSee how long you’ve been logged in to your Mac:
➜ last -1 $USER
smith console Wed Apr 25 10:45 still logged inDownload a PDF file from the Internet to your Mac desktop, without
needing a web browser. This involves two commands, and the O is a capital letter, not a zero:
➜curl -O http://www.blazemonger.com/sample.pdf➜mv sample.pdf $HOME/Desktop
Display the IP address of your Mac:
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