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Category Archives: Learning the Terminal

Learning the Terminal on the Mac - Part 4 - Bringing Finder and Terminal Together

09-Aug-08

The first few articles laid out a good foundation of basic shell usage, but little Mac-specific information. In this article, all that will change. We’re going to show a few ways to get back and forth between Terminal and Finder.
From Finder to Terminal
There a few methods to get information from Finder into the [...]

Learning the Terminal on the Mac - Part 3 - Basic File Operations

17-Jul-08

By now you hopefully have a good understanding about how to reference files with paths and list files using ls, and move around with cd. Now we’re going to go over basic file operations including:

Create
Copy
Move
Delete

There is a lot of information to cover this time around, but I want to make one quick note about [...]

Learning the Terminal on the Mac - Part 2 - The Shell and Paths

08-Jul-08

In the first article we learned how to launch Terminal and get started using the shell. Also we covered some basic commands for moving around, including cd, pwd and ls.
In this action-packed episode, we are going to take a closer look at directories and paths. Usually. I would try to cover material in [...]

Learning the Terminal on the Mac - Introduction and Moving Around

30-Jun-08

The is the first of hopefully several short articles describing the basics of using the terminal in Mac OS X. This is aimed at absolute beginners who have never used a command line interface before. The first few installments are likely to be very screenshot heavy, because the command line has a rather [...]