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. Topher ...

If you find a number of similarly named files that you would like to delete from multiple folders, the Find command in the Terminal can be used to do the trick. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past ...

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 ...

The operating system your MacBook runs, OS X, is built on top of UNIX, and Terminal provides you with access to the underlying UNIX system commands. Most server software that your business would want ...

If you’re a command line aficionado and you want to play an audio file, there’s no need to leave the Terminal. There are Terminal commands you can use to not just play audio, but to convert files as ...

Mac/Linux users: You can use the file filename terminal command to quickly identify file information. Occasionally you will come across files that have an incorrect or missing file extension. As shown ...

In Unix-like operating systems, such OS X or a Linux distribution, every file has an owner account. They also have a special program called the terminal that gives access to the command line and all ...

Converting texts between formats is a bit of a pain to do on a file-by-file basis, but thankfully, MacIssues shows how to convert text files in bulk using a simple terminal command. The tool you'll ...

hey guys, I have 10.3.8 and the new xcode tools installed. and I'm working on a simple c++ project for class. I write a simple .c file for the program and using the g++ compiler in terminal I compile ...