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 ...

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 ...

These are the basic macOS Terminal commands to know for updating a Mac, forcing an unresponsive Mac to shut down, finding the differences between files easily and much more. Under the hood, macOS X ...

Terminal app can be daunting at first, but it’s really the best way to hack into your Mac’s configurations and preferences to customize things to work for you rather than against you. With the right ...

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 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.