If you use the Terminal regularly, because it is basically a window under the hood of OS X you may find yourself focused on the active shell and overlooking a number of the features the Terminal ...

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

If your Terminal utility does not drop you to the command prompt, there are several things you can try to get it going again. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Terminal has tons of great applications on the Mac. By accessing the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X, Terminal allows power users and newbies alike to do things with their Mac that may not be enabled ...

Sometimes we all go a little too nuts on making folders inside of folders and you just need to flatten the whole thing down to one. OS X Daily shows off a handy Terminal command for just that. When ...

I saw this tip over at OS X Daily today, and it reminded me of all the times I did this as a Mac IT guy a couple of jobs back. See, every so often, the Macs where I worked would start to act weird.

OS X: It's rare, but if you ever want to hide a user account from OS X's menu—maybe for added security or to avoid confusing novice users—this terminal command will do the trick. In Yosemite, open a ...

We've had this discussion a few times in the past, but I think we're due for a fresh look with how much Terminal has improved over the last couple of OS X versions. So let's see your aliases, EXPORTs, ...

I'm trying to get Python's ncurses module to display extended ASCII characters, similar to those found here. I've written a little test program to try and output these characters, but I'm having ...

Terminal (also referred to as Terminal. app) is the terminal emulator included in Apple's OS X operating system. It originated in OS X's predecessors, NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. A terminal emulator is a ...