The Terminal application in macOS is one of the most useful tools available. Although some users prefer the more user-friendly approach of a graphical user interface (GUI), it’s important to remember ...

The Terminal in OS X may seem like a cryptic tool to use, but there are some quick and useful commands that can be run in it to help troubleshoot your system, and they do not require much knowledge of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A community site offers a growing list of Mac OS X tips and tricks that require digging into the Terminal. Some very useful, others just for fun, the tips are ranked and commented. The Terminal Tips & ...

While not a common way to manage images in OS X, converting images in the terminal is a quick and easy affair. You can actually use two different methods to convert image files using the command line.

Mac OS X includes a great terminal editor, but among the handful of alternatives is one that easily rises above them all. iTerm2 is our pick for the best terminal emulator for Mac OS X thanks to its ...

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 ...

I am looking to paste configuration commands into a Cisco WLC (Wireless LAN Controller) from Mac OS X (via SSH). In the past, using standard Apple Terminal, I have experienced overflows, as the end ...