Switching to Mac OS X - Terminal 101

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An introduction to the Terminal for those making a switch from Windows to Mac OS X.

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[mswift801]

what is it that makes your mouse pointer send out a "sonar" animation when you click somewhere?

[dell1032]

That's a feature of the screen recording program I use, iShowU. The "sonar" only pops up after the video is done recording. My mouse clicks are standard and I don't see the animation as I am making the video.

[vourdou]

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

[dell1032]

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.

[teeangle]

ouch 13 gigs available... dude that sucks

[dell1032]

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.

[omrig1]

Why is there always a 5 minute BS intro before the how to actually begins?!

[GreenFont]

Because OS X is based on UNIX and utilizes a BASH shell. The terminal is probably the most powerful tool of any OS. As it talks practically directly to the kernel if I am not mistaken. Underneath the main folders you see, is the root folder called /. So by using cd /, you can get into the unix filesystem that is the real core of the OS. /Desktop/Documents, for example would tell the OS to look in the root folder for desktop then desktop for documents, Unix doesn't use drives like windows does.

[Indyrpm]

Thank you, a video that finally makes sense on basis commands for terminal.

[Azarien]

@TGKDEBIAN it's not Linux.

[Azarien]

@vourdou mac does not emulate linux. Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, which is a descendant of real UNIX system. So THIS is a real thing, and it is Linux that tries to emulate Unix.

[mishokorlov]

Very well explained !!!!!

[arTTisTicHD]

how did u get to that black page at 1:28 like where u typed it in.

[bomb00000]

If only pc people were smart as him!

[ninjahimself]

dos doesnt lock the \ and thats bad news... nix keeps / on the LOCK DOWN

[mrbackhand1234]

for beginners the most useful commands that you use to get around terminal are ls and cd

obviously thats just when your first learning then to actually do things you need many more commands obviously

[TGKDEBIAN]

MAC os ITS LINUX !!! PFF...