How to find and Use Terminal on a Mac.mov

I suggest watching this vid in full screen otherwise you can't really see what i'm typing all that well....

This just a simple way to find an interesting feature on a Mac called Terminal. In the video I was using it to make the mac say what I was typing although you couldn't hear it. Examples:

say Hi

this will make it say Hi

Hi

This is considered an invalid command because it doesn't have the say
Enjoy =-).

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• Mac
• how to
• Terminal
• Intersting
• Apple
• Macintosh

[DyeItToPink]

So, I messed with it when I didn't know much about it, and not data is lost, I think. I tried to put in sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Con­tents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts this command, but it froze, so i quit the application. When i re-opened it, it didn't say anything like Last login blah blah blah or my username. its just like a blank document. Do you know what I'm supposed to do? I dunno. D:

[jami1567]

@DyeItToPink

If you want to open an application from Terminal you need only specify it's location...not the contents of its bundle. For TextEdit you could do: > open /Applications/TextEdit.app

If you need to open a specific file with TextEdit.app then try: > open /Applications/TextEdit.app /mypath/myfile or, in this case > sudo open /Applications/TextEdit.app /etc/hosts

[jami1567]

@DyeItToPink If you are using Terminal and do something that causes it to stop working just press CTRL+C to break out of the running command. You should see your command prompt again after doing that.

[awkwardproductions1]

Hey do you know a site where you can download terminal? I cant find mine

[jami1567]

@awkwardproductions1

/applications/utilities is where it should be, if not your going to have to reinstall the OS, but thats only if you really want terminal.

[HoboNum99]

@jami1567 what if its not?

[jami1567]

@HoboNum99

If it's not there then your going to need to reinstall your Operating System if you want it.

[jami1567]

@awkwardproductions1 Did you try using the search feature of Mac?

[MrPivot007]

@awkwardproductions1 *facepalm*

[zSimOTUTORIALS]

i cant find terminal in utlities -.-