Running applications from a terminal can have a few benefits, particularly if you program for a particular environment and want your application to run other programs in a command-line environment. If ...

The operating system your MacBook runs, OS X, is built on top of UNIX, and Terminal provides you with access to the underlying UNIX system commands. Most server software that your business would want ...

While you can manually enter the commands to edit files in Terminal editors, in OS X you can set up a service to open files in a desired terminal editor from the Finder's contextual menu. Topher ...

If you’ve been using a Mac for any length of time, you know that it’s more than just a pretty point-and-click, window-and-icon interface. Beneath the surface of the operating system is an entire world ...

Linux: Why clutter up your desktop with separate terminal windows for every task? Learn to love GNU Screen, the terminal multiplexer, which essentially adds "tabs" to your terminal window. Here's how ...