Tweak Your Mac Terminal: Command Line macOS

© Daniel Platt 2021

D. PlattTweak Your Mac Terminalhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6171-2_2

2. Terminal Basics

Daniel Platt¹  

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Andover, Hampshire, UK

 

In this chapter, we look more closely at what Terminal is and what you can do with it. There is a lot to cover, so let’s dig in.

The Terminal Application

The Terminal application has been installed with macOS since the very first release and it is one of the reasons I like macOS. Terminal allows you to do many things that, if completed in the GUI, would take a long time. In essence, Terminal allows you to be a poweruser.

Meet your macOS Terminal, shown in Figure 2-1.

Figure 2-1

The macOS Terminal

As a ...