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Terminal User Guide

Sep 27, 2012 Open the Terminal application. You may want to add this to your dock. I like to launch terminal by using Spotlight search in OS X, searching for “terminal”. Anatomy of the Console. First let’s clarify a few terms. Console: This is the system as a whole. This is both the command line as well as the output from previous commands. Try it on your Mac: Open Terminal, type man ls, then press Return. The ls command’s man page is quite long, and you’ll need to press the spacebar several times to get to the bottom.

You can use the command-line environment interactively by typing a command and waiting for a result, or you can use the shell to compose scripts that run without direct interaction.

Execute commands in the shell

• In the Terminal app on your Mac, enter the complete pathname of the tool’s executable file, followed by any needed arguments, then press Return.

If a command is located in one of the shell’s known folders, you can omit path information when entering the command name. The list of known folders is stored in the shell’s PATH environment variable and includes the folders containing most command-line tools.

For example, to run the ls command in the current user’s home folder, enter the following at the command prompt, then press Return:

To run a command in the current user’s home folder, precede it with the folder specifier. For example, to run MyCommandLineProg, use the following:

% ~/MyCommandLineProg

To open an app, use the open command:

Commands On Terminal For Mac Os X 10 13 Download

When entering commands, if you get the message command not found, check your spelling. Here’s an example:

% opne -a TextEdit.app zsh: opne: command not found

Terminal Codes For Mac

Terminate commands

1. In the Terminal app on your Mac, click the Terminal window that is running the command you want to terminate.

2. Press Control-C.

   This sends a signal that causes most commands to terminate.

Repeat previously entered commands

The commands you enter during a session are saved so you can repeat a previously used command without retyping it.

1. In the Terminal app on your Mac, press the Up Arrow key.

   The last command you entered appears on the command line.

2. Continue pressing the Up Arrow key until you see the command you want, then press Return.

See alsoSpecify files and folders in Terminal on MacRedirect Terminal input and output on MacDrag files into a Terminal window to specify paths on MacKeyboard shortcuts in Terminal on MacApple Developer website: Command Line Primer