by on November 11, 2009 Leave a Comment

Boost Productivity with Terminal Know-How

Terminalicon2.pngThe Terminal is both powerful and daunting. For Mac users that cut their teeth on OS9, staring at a blank blinking cursor might cause you to break into a sweat. For Windows users, who cut their teeth on DOS, it’s a little less overwhelming.

Learning to use the Terminal will boost your productivity, you can perform some actions only with the Terminal. In this post from Tech Radar, author Craig Grannell shows you how to get more out of OSX by learning a bit of Terminal-fu.

My favorite tips include:

  • Using the killall command to kill a process.
  • Using the defaults command to declutter my Open With menu

Do you have any favorite Terminal commands, share them in the comments.

by on May 12, 2009 Leave a Comment

The Terminal

The Terminal or Terminal.app is an industry standard command shell which gives you full access to the UNIX underpinnings of Mac OS X. You can use standard UNIX commands, scripting languages and tools in the Terminal.

Included with the terminal are a number of short cuts you might not be used to in other UNIX terminals. You can cut and paste commands, drag and drop files into the Terminal. Finally, you can customize the Terminal to your hearts content, adding fonts, background colors.