Get to Know (and Customize) Terminal
As I mentioned in What’s Terminal?, the app you’re most likely to use for accessing the command line in macOS is Terminal. Since you’ll be spending so much time in this app, a brief tour is in order. In addition, you may want to adjust a few settings, such as window size, color, and font, to whatever you find most comfortable and easy to read.
Learn the Basics of Terminal
The moment has arrived. Find the Terminal app (inside the folder /Applications/Utilities), double-click it, and take a Zen moment to contemplate the emptiness (Figure 2). The exact appearance of the window will vary based on your version of macOS.
To state the obvious, it’s ...
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