Terminal users may find it useful to open the current Finder window in the Terminal <i>and</i> open the current Terminal working directory in the Finder. Some options. Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

Terminal brings the command line back to your Mac. Here's how to use it to customise and troubleshoot your Mac, and the most commonly used Terminal commands ...

While you can manually enter the commands to edit files in Terminal editors, in OS X you can set up a service to open files in a desired terminal editor from the Finder's contextual menu.

In a Mac OS X Hints Weblog entry last week, my colleague Rob Griffiths outlined a way to quickly change the working directory in Terminal—the directory you’re “in”—to the currently ...

If you are the main or admin user of your Mac, then launching Terminal will open a window that shows you a single command line prompt.

Most Mac applications are neatly packaged, but you can easily peek inside using Finder or Terminal. App package contents typically include executable files, resources, configurations, and ...

Terminal can tell you exactly how long your Mac has been switched on since you last restarted. Or it can more robustly prevent your Mac from sleeping or napping than the Settings option does.

Although it is often simplest to add a new user to a computer running Mac OS X using the built-in graphical interface, you may prefer to do so from a Terminal window, perhaps because you are ...