{"id":1191,"date":"2016-02-26T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2016-02-26T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:04:05","slug":"1191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/1191\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the OS X Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by and following on from a useful article on iMore<\/a>, here are a few more tips on how to use the Terminal \u2014 if you ever need to:<\/p>\n

– Press Tab to autocomplete a path.
\n– Use Option-left and right arrows to move the cursor by word (this didn’t use to work but does now).
\n– Use up and down arrows to go back through your previous commands (all the way back to previous sessions).
\n– “sudo su” if you’re going to do a few things as the superuser.
\n– Dragging in files from the Finder to type their path is very handy.
\n– You need to escape spaces in filenames with , as in “My File”.
\n– It’s written in the article already, but recommended to always use “ls -la” to show all permissions and hidden files.
\n– “top” is the Terminal equivalent of Activity Monitor, handy for discovering process IDs.
\n– “kill -9” if something just won’t die.
\n– When navigating, ~ means your home directory, and \/ means root.
\n– Whatever you do, DO NOT type “rm -r \/*” because it wipes everything \u2014 at least, the files you have permission to.
\n– The “more” app is a good way to read longer text files.
\n– “chmod” for changing permissions.
\n– “dig” or “nslookup” for checking out websites.
\n– “vi” is a basic, powerful text editor, and knowing its basic commands can get you out of some sticky situations \u2014\u00a0but it’s weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inspired by and following on from a useful article on iMore, here are a few more tips on how to use the Terminal \u2014 if you ever need to: – Press Tab to autocomplete a path. – Use Option-left and right arrows to move the cursor by word (this didn’t use to work but does … Continue reading Using the OS X Terminal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}