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Switching to Mac OS X - Terminal 101

August 22nd, 2008 by opioq

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  1. Ir0nR0ses Says:

    Terminaal is hardly cryptic.
    Good video but what i would say to anyone who REALLY wants to learn BASH (terminal to osx users) then install a linux distro with just the shell (no gui or fancy shit).

    BASH and OS X Terminal are both the exact same, except i have noticed in osx term is that it is missing a couple of commands.

  2. dell1032 Says:

    Yes, there are many text editors available to you from the command line. I won’t get into it here, but the most common text editors in Unix are nano, emacs, and vi. Out of those three I use emacs most often, but there’s a lot to learn and go over when using emacs. For really basic editing, nano might be a better choice.

  3. dell1032 Says:

    Not really. I partitioned my 120 GB hard drive into 2 equal 60 GB parts. One partition is for storage and the other 60 GB is where Tiger and all my apps live. I admit to being lazy with my data management and am currently about a week overdue with backing things up (normally backup every 2 weeks). Generally speaking as long as you have 15 percent free space on your hard drive, HFS+ will be able to keep fragmentation to a minimum. 9 gigs is the minimum free space for a 60 GB partition.

  4. dell1032 Says:

    When I switched from Windows to OS X, it was my first time using a *nix based command line and I was pissed when I couldn’t view my files from the command line by typing “dir”. Most Windows users have never touches a Unix based OS and that’s why I say it’s sort strange when you first open the terminal application.

  5. dell1032 Says:

    It’s from the Boeing 787 rollout ceremony from a year ago.

  6. dell1032 Says:

    If you want to work with any directories, applications, or files with spaces simple enclose the name in quotation marks. For example, to create a new folder with spaces the command would look like

    mkdir “My New Folder”

    You can even use the Tab key to auto-complete long file names with spaces after you get the first quotation mark and some of the letters typed in. I may do a follow-up video with more on the terminal, but I do want to go on to other topics. Peace.

  7. grayfox106 Says:

    Great Video, Hope you do more on terminal, like some extra thing you might be able to do, also, is there a way to use Terminal with files that have spaces in the name?

  8. vourdou Says:

    why to use windows or mac os since both try to emulate linux ?

  9. dxalfredo Says:

    Hey what type of plane is that?
    737 757 777 767?

  10. thefamilyk Says:

    cool

  11. ezadsms Says:

    Nice Review

  12. grayfox106 Says:

    Cool thanks for the info :D
    I was wondering, is it possible to open .txt files in terminal?

  13. dell1032 Says:

    I would say Linux tries to emulate Unix since Linux was developed as a means of running a powerful OS dedicated to mainframes on cheap PC hardware on Linus’ computer when he was in college.
    Anyhow, some programs do not have OS X counterparts and I use my installation of Windows in VM to run the legit copy of Microsoft Office 2003 I own.

  14. Ir0nR0ses Says:

    that slash is calssed at the “root”
    Guys trys these: ls (list files in dir)
    rm (remove) cp (copy) rm -rf (recursive remove - fun) passwd (change password)

  15. teeangle Says:

    ouch 13 gigs available… dude that sucks

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