Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

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 ...

The OS X Terminal opens up a world of powerful UNIX utilities and scripts. If you're migrating from Linux, you'll find many familiar commands work the way you expect. But power users often aren't ...

Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe ...

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

Mac: By default, Terminal always launches into your home directory. For the most part, that's all you really need, but for those occasions when you need to go to a specific folder it's a pain to get ...

These days, more and more developers are moving to OS X. Here are 20 shortcuts to help you get work done in Terminal on your Mac. Boasting some of the best web development software, the ability to ...

In the never-ending search to work smarter, not harder, few things can be simpler than entering commands on one Mac and having them pushed out across the entire LAN to multiple nodes. One of these ...

I'm trying to get Python's ncurses module to display extended ASCII characters, similar to those found here. I've written a little test program to try and output these characters, but I'm having ...

Terminal (also referred to as Terminal. app) is the terminal emulator included in Apple's OS X operating system. It originated in OS X's predecessors, NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. A terminal emulator is a ...