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Terminal.app

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The Mac OS X Terminal.app. In case you aren’t aware of it, you can find it under the /Applications/Utilities folder.

apple.com Unix features page.

Tips

  • Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is a spiffy font to use in the Terminal.
  • Under Terminal’s Edit menu is Paste Escaped Text — if you have a file or directory name copied with spaces or other special characters, hit Command-Control-V to paste it with the necessary \ backslashes. Such as “To Do Tomorrow.txt” into “To\ Do\ Tomorrow.txt”.
  • If you have a Web URL in a Terminal window (such as a Mutt email message), Command + Double-Click will open it in your default browser.