

Terminal is in the Utilities folder inside Applications. Configuring a server is the most ideal way to get comfortable with shell * Servers are mostly Linux, learn to configure it from command line and you can run your own server.Linux and OS X use a lot of the same commands, learn one and you know the other.For me one of the triggers was to be able to use Grunt There is a whole cosmos of GUI-less handy applications, you have more stuff at your disposal.Terminal (Terminal.app) is the terminal emulator included in the OS X operating system by Apple Inc. The most generic sense of the term shell means any program that users employ to type commands.īash is a Unix shell a free software replacement for the Bourne shell it has been distributed widely as the shell for the GNU operating system and as a default shell on Linux and Mac OS X. is a means of interacting with a computer program where the user (or client) issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text (command lines). TerminologyĬommand Line Interface CLI - an umbrella term:

It’s one of the things that seem hard, but actually are not (I mean the basics aren’t difficult), learn few commands and tricks and you’ll find it to be much better way of using a computer.
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This posts looks into using computer from the command line: how to navigate around your file system and how to do basic tasks such as creating/deleting folders and files, installing packages with apt-get, general terminology, customizing the terminal, and some more. Filed under: System - Tagged with: shell, database, bash
