The Bash Terminal shell in OS X (or other Unix-like systems, for that matter) contains a history feature that can be quite useful. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past ...

If you use the terminal, you may run into a problem where the terminal will display a new window but will not show you a command prompt. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

macOS 10.15 Catalina brought many big changes to the Mac, like lack of support for legacy 32-bit apps, but one that you could easily have missed is the default Terminal shell switching from bash (the ...

So I'm setting up my new iBook that they gave me. I want to make the terminal look all spiffy and whatnot because this machine will be more of a thin client than a real heavy use box.<BR><BR>So I've ...

The Mac Terminal app is your window into macOS's UNIX underpinnings. Here's how to customize the appearance of Terminal in macOS. The UNIX operating system standard goes back decades. To 1970 in fact, ...

If you're new to Linux, the biggest change from Windows or macOS is probably the command line. Depending on how you use Linux, you might not have to dip into the terminal often, but you will have to ...

Here is an announcement from Microsoft Build you probably didn’t see coming: Microsoft today announced that it is bringing the GNU project’s Bash shell to Windows. Bash (Bourne Again SHell) has long ...

Windows Terminal, by default, uses Windows PowerShell as its command-line interpreter. If you use Command Prompt or any other command-line interpreter, you may want to change the default shell in ...