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 ...

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 ...

OS X’s Help menu is fantastic, if underrated. It even lets you find menu commands by highlighting them when you search within the Help search field. If you hit enter after typing in a search term, ...

Underneath its candy-coated Aqua interface, Mac OS X is based on Unix, an operating system that dates back to 1969. Unix and its archetypal user interface, the command line, look alien to many Mac ...

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 ...

Every Mac user should know how—and when—to turn to the Terminal. And he or she should also know how to shut down a truly recalcitrant app or a stubbornly frozen Mac. lsof lists all open files and the ...