Make Terminal windows stand out with profiles

When you’re logged in to several servers, unique background colors and window titles specified in profiles help you easily spot the right Terminal window. Use profiles built into Terminal, or create your own custom profiles.

Navigate Terminal windows

1. It turns out that when you download the Mountain Lion installer from the Mac App Store, that copy of the installer installs whatever version of OS X was available at the time of download.
2. I had found it difficult to get an overview of what was different about Terminal and Mac's bash vs. Other Unix / POSIX / Linux shells. Some unhelpful advice on the web was that you could pick up any UNIX book as Mac Terminal is 'mostly' the same. But if you don't know which commands count as 'mostly' and which don't, that advice is quite useless.

Open up Terminal (Applications Utilities) and type in: sudo find / -iname.app. This will display all the apps you have on your computer. From there, you can copy and paste the results into a. 3.3.10 Security Improvements - Improves the method for gaining authorization to run Python scripts launched from outside iTerm2. Version 3.3.9 deprecated the older auth mechanism based on the command line, requiring the user to consent to every connection. That was annoying. There are now two ways to get permission: 1. Everything we discuss below is a bash command. Before you start using Terminal, you can customize it to your own personal preference. If you prefer, it’s even possible to download a third-party Terminal alternative for a customized look and feel. General Mac Command Line Tips. First, let’s look at some basic Terminal facts you should know. To log into your Mac on another Mac, execute the command: ssh -l username remote-address. Replace username with the username you'd use to log into OS X and remote-address with the IP address given to you in the Sharing pane. You can now control your Mac and execute Terminal commands remotely, a real plus.

Add marks and bookmarks as you work, then use them to quickly navigate through lengthy Terminal window output.

Manage processes

Use the inspector to view and manage running processes, and change window titles and background colors.

To browse the Terminal User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page.

Most of the time, you can re-download the current version of macOS via the Mac App Store, and older ones via these links:

However, I’ve run into a situation several times where the Software Update mechanism simply refuses to initiate a download:

Thankfully, macOS installers can be downloaded via Terminal in macOS Catalina. This command will download the most recent version of macOS, depositing it in your Applications folder:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer

The softwareupdate command has some neat tricks up its sleeve, as pointed out by Armin Briegel:

Mac Terminal Commands

The --fetch-full-installer flag has a sub-flag: --full-installer-version which allows you to download a specific version.

During my testing in the Catalina beta version I was able to download 10.15, 10.14.6, 10.14.5, and 10.13.6. I was not able to test if 10.13.6 would download the hardware specific build of 10.13.6 for the 2018 MacBook Pro, since I do not have that hardware.

So, to pull 10.13.6 down, you’d use:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6

Fun Mac Terminal Commands

I wish Apple would just have a support document up with direct downloads for all of this stuff, but this tool is not a bad alternative.

Best Terminal Commands Mac

Update: Don’t miss this documentation from JAMF for more on the subject.