My preferrence is a way that doesn’t require reaching for a mouse and using the least number of keystrokes: There are different ways to open a Terminal command line. On the Mac, the Terminal app is kinda buried, probably perhaps because those who use a MacOS laptop just for social media probably won’t need a Terminal.īut if you’re a developer, it’s hard to get away from using a CLI. Information here is often used in interview questions. It’s also called a command-line terminal, abbreviated as CLI. What Apple calls the Terminal is what Linux people call the shell console This tutorial describes how to make use of the macOS Terminal to make your life easier and less frustrating.
Foreground processes and background jobs.
