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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The macOS Terminal can be a bit intimidating, but it's pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it. Here's a guided tour of the most useful macOS Terminal commands.

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.

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 ...

This opens a new window displaying the icons for your Mac's System Utilities. Double-click the "Terminal" icon to open a Terminal session. Type the command "drutil tray eject" and press the Return ...