5 Ways to Use the Terminal in OS X

January 12th, 2006 · No Comments

On DOS I am a command line king, on UNIX I’m a bumbling infant. I’ve just never got used to the command line in UNIX, one reason is of course I don’t use it enough.

Like many Mac users, part of the reason I started using a Mac was the graphical interface and not having to use a command line. It was a big selling point for Apple in the early days of the Mac, with their literature often belittling Unix and DOS/Windows systems for their reliance on “obscure commands”.

Of course, since 2001 we’ve had a Unix variant under the hood of the Mac OS. Apple is now quite proud to promote its command line environment (see Based on Unix on Apple’s website).

5 Ways to Use the Terminal in OS X, from Useful to Just Fun