A terminal is an application on Unix-based operating systems that provides a command-line interface (or CLI), so you can interact with the operating system’s shell and access/control its different ...

For example, running the command less /var/log/syslog will open your system log in a controlled view. You may then jump ...

In Windows, typing cd by itself shows you the current working directory. On macOS, the pwd (print working directory) command serves the same purpose. It will display the full path of where you ...

When we think of the macOS user interface, we think of the graphical UI—pointing and clicking icons, with a cursor, menus, windows, etc. But there’s another UI built into macOS: the command-line ...

OS X: Several applications can resize a bunch of images, but it often takes some time and fiddling. Like with most Terminal commands, it just takes a little string of text to get your images down to ...

When I first started with Linux, I used to mostly rely on the graphical interface simply because it felt familiar and straightforward, especially since I am used to the Windows OS. However, after ...