If you are starting to experiment with the OS X Terminal, you'll want to know what commands are available. Here are some ways to explore your options. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

You can make your life a little easier and more productive by adding some Unix power to your Windows system. For a fairly extensive collection of Unix tools — including most of the essentials like ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

A terminal is an application on Unix-based operating systems that provides a command-line interface (or CLI), so you can interact with the operating system’s shell and access/control its different ...

In Windows, typing cd by itself shows you the current working directory. On macOS, the pwd (print working directory) command serves the same purpose. It will display the full path of where you ...

When you enter commands in the Terminal, they are saved in a history that you can scroll through by pressing the up and down arrows. This tip prevents the same item from being saved to the history ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...