The Terminal App on a Mac

Terminal app on macOS

Within the Utilities folder, which is a subfolder of the Applications folder, you’ll find a collection of various useful applications. One of these is the Terminal program. Instead of navigating to the Utilities folder in Finder and then launching the program, you can use Spotlight search (keyboard shortcut: ⌘ + spacebar) and enter the word … Read more

Ebook macOS Shell for Beginners published

book cover macOS Shell for Beginners

The first edition of the book macOS Shell for Beginners was published in spring 2017. At that time, Bash was still defined as the default login shell. Accordingly, the first edition, as well as the following editions 2 and 3, focused on Bash. With the switch to Z shell (zsh) as the default login shell, … Read more

Searching for Files in the Shell (macOS)

What good are all the files in the file system if you can’t find them again? Exactly—none. That’s why this blog post is all about searching for files (and folders) using the shell. There are several commands available for this, but I’ll focus on find. Open the Terminal and create a new subfolder named “shell” … Read more