If you’re deleting files, it’s good practice to double-check, so to add a confirmation step put -i immediately before the file name. So, to remove our original test file, we’d type rm ~/Documents/Test/TestFile.rtf which will delete the file without asking for confirmation. To delete the test files, use the rm command. To rename files without moving them, just remove the second directory from the command.
So, in our example above, instead of TestFile-copy.rtf, you’d give the moved file a different name. You can also use the mv command to rename files. The ‘~’ is shorthand for your Home directory, so ‘~/Documents’ is the Documents folder in your Home folder. And then type mv ~/Documents/Test/TestFile-copy.rtf ~/Documents/Test2/TestFile-copy.rtf to move the file TestFile-copy.rtf to the Test2 directory. Now type mkdir Test2 to ‘make’ a new directory called Test2. That will place you in the Documents folder in your Home Directory. Traditionally, the command to show network interfaces was ifconfig: ifconfig-a. To see hardware details about your network card, issue: lshw -C network. Type cd then drag your Documents folder on to the Terminal window and press Return. Linux offers tons of networking line commands. A command has three elements to it the command itself, which calls a specific tool, an option which modifies the command’s output, and an argument, which calls the resource on which the command will operate. Using Terminal is straightforward: you type a command on the command-line and press Return to execute it. We’re getting ahead of ourselves, however.
Commands in Unix are shell-specific, so it’s important, say when you’re following tips written for a different flavour of Unix, that you use the right shell for the commands, or vice versa.
You can run other shells with Terminal, but you’ll have to install those yourself. The ‘cursor’ is indicated by a shaded box. If you look at the command-line inside the window, you’ll see that each line starts with the name of the Mac and is followed by the name of the current user.
The title bar of a Terminal window displays the name of the current user, the type of shell, and the size of the window in pixels. Here are 10 Mac Terminal Commands: Want to See Hidden Files/Folders Enter the following command to see hidden stuffs:defaults write AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUEkillall Finder Download Files Without Using Browser Terminal can help in downloading files when you don’t want to use web browsers. There are various types of shell Apple uses one called Bash.
You launch it like any other and when you do, you’ll see Apple’s implementation of a Unix command-line environment, known as a shell. The first thing to understand about Terminal is that it’s just an application and it lives in the Utilities folder in Applications.