50 macOS Tips and Tricks Using Terminal (the last one is CRAZY!)

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In this video, NetworkChuck shows you the top 50 MacOS terminal commands you NEED to know. Now, while Mac OS is unix-based and very similar to Linux, it has its nuances and things worth paying attention to. Things like, making your Macbook talk, finding wifi passwords, diving into the matrix and taking a trip to the aquarium, all from your terminal.
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0:00 ⏩ Intro
0:12 ⏩ say
0:23 ⏩ security find-generic-password -wa Wifi
0:40 ⏩ pbcopy
0:54 ⏩ command + option + shift + v
1:08 ⏩ caffeinate
1:20 ⏩ command + shift + 3
1:53 ⏩ defaults write com.apple.screencapture name
2:10 ⏩ defaults write com.apple.screencapture type
2:19 ⏩ default write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/screenshots
2:40 ⏩ passwd
4:11 ⏩ cd
4:17 ⏩ ls
4:20 ⏩ pwd
4:26 ⏩ whoami
4:32 ⏩ mv
4:36 ⏩ cp
4:41 ⏩ ditto
4:48 ⏩ df -h
4:51 ⏩ nano
5:00 ⏩ man
5:09 ⏩ open
5:18 ⏩ ping
5:25 ⏩ ifconfig
5:36 ⏩ grep
5:43 ⏩ awk
5:53 ⏩ traceroute
6:04 ⏩ dig
6:12 ⏩ ps
6:21 ⏩ top
6:31 ⏩ kill
6:47 ⏩ which $SHELL
6:56 ⏩ bash
7:00 ⏩ zsh
7:05 ⏩ uptime
7:10 ⏩ killall mDNSResponder….and more
7:15 ⏩ qlmanage
7:22 ⏩ diff
7:27 ⏩ curl
7:42 ⏩ leave
7:54 ⏩ history
7:59 ⏩ disable gatekeeper
8:20 ⏩ brew
8:46 ⏩ cmatrix
9:02 ⏩ asciiquarium
9:13 ⏩ toilet
9:31 ⏩ tetris
9:48 ⏩ python3
10:18 ⏩ shutdown
10:33 ⏩ sudo touch id
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[@NetworkChuck]

I know your password. Change it with Dashlane: www.dashlane.com/networkchuck50 (Use code networkchuck50 to get 50% off) 0:00 ⏩ Intro 0:12 ⏩ say 0:23 ⏩ security find-generic-password -wa Wifi 0:40 ⏩ pbcopy 0:54 ⏩ command + option + shift + v 1:08 ⏩ caffeinate 1:20 ⏩ command + shift + 3 1:53 ⏩ defaults write com.apple.screencapture name 2:10 ⏩ defaults write com.apple.screencapture type 2:19 ⏩ default write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/screenshots 2:40 ⏩ passwd 4:11 ⏩ cd 4:17 ⏩ ls 4:20 ⏩ pwd 4:26 ⏩ whoami 4:32 ⏩ mv 4:36 ⏩ cp 4:41 ⏩ ditto 4:48 ⏩ df -h 4:51 ⏩ nano 5:00 ⏩ man 5:09 ⏩ open 5:18 ⏩ ping 5:25 ⏩ ifconfig 5:36 ⏩ grep 5:43 ⏩ awk 5:53 ⏩ traceroute 6:04 ⏩ dig 6:12 ⏩ ps 6:21 ⏩ top 6:31 ⏩ kill 6:47 ⏩ which $SHELL 6:56 ⏩ bash 7:00 ⏩ zsh 7:05 ⏩ uptime 7:10 ⏩ killall mDNSResponder….and more 7:15 ⏩ qlmanage 7:22 ⏩ diff 7:27 ⏩ curl 7:42 ⏩ leave 7:54 ⏩ history 7:59 ⏩ disable gatekeeper 8:20 ⏩ brew 8:46 ⏩ cmatrix 9:02 ⏩ asciiquarium 9:13 ⏩ toilet 9:31 ⏩ tetris 9:48 ⏩ python3 10:18 ⏩ shutdown 10:33 ⏩ sudo touch id

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[@drnefario6576]

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[@elvirag4480]

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[@vladimir_nj697]

We need some for windows too!

[@xXtetyXx]

u're awesomeeeee

[@blakecalhoun3721]

Please do more Mac videos.

[@novacoax]

I didn't know he had a Mac till now 😂 Now I wanna see more of such videos

[@motazsa1]

I agree with you

[@BazyliKowalski]

Up +1

[@louishurr393]

Yes!

[@moneylog9232]

Awesome 👍

[@BrutusMaximusAurelius]

Been a Mac and Linux user for a long time, but I always like these type of videos because there’s almost always something new. In this video it’s the last one with touchID. It somehow completely escaped me that this is possible, so thanks!

[@rishabhpant1828]

Same here

[@vaniad555]

so true, I have forgoten that we can play games in the terminal, and good reminder of how great brew is.

[@adalmar9889]

Same here- Mac has the edge over Linux for me now

[@Zancb]

With your `kill -9` command, you needed to specify that `kill -9` forcefully kills a process without giving it a chance to gracefully exit/terminate. You never NEVER want to use `kill -9` for ending just any process. Using regular `kill` will at least give the process a chance to clean up after itself. If you use `kill -9` you could run the risk of heaps of memory being stuck in RAM or open files that couldn't close, which could cause further processes hanging, like Finder trying to figure out why a file is open and not able to be accessed.

[@leodepaulis]

Very useful (as always). With ´history' the list has each command with an index number on the left, so you can then run a specific command in the list by typing !. In your example if you wanted to run the "ps -ax" command you would type !593. You can also count from the bottom up, so that command is the 14 last which means you could also run it by typing !-14.

[@gizmoitus]

I am a long time bash/history user, and use it frequently. It also supports incremental search for prior commands using ctrl-r, which is a great feature. However, just to make it clear this is a bash feature, as other popular shells like zsh do things differently. Commands get stored in the ~/.bash_history file. This is useful to know, because you can actually edit that file with vi if you mistakenly add a bunch of commands by accident. There are also 2 environment variables you can set globally by editing the /etc/bashrc file to change them. By default on osx i think it's 500 entries (depends on your version?) but if you'd rather increase this to 5000, you would add these lines: export HISTSIZE=5000 and export HISTFILESIZE=5000. Open a new terminal and you will now have a larger history buffer file.

[@BaileyMagikz]

as a longtime viewer and a macos / windows user i appreciate the mac content and showing how amazing terminal/macos/launchpad is

[@williemaxt]

Thanks so much for making this. I'm a lifelong Linux user that just switched to an M1 Mac a few days ago and this is exactly what I needed

[@dosaiba5294]

These were all awesome, one I would add is that you can hold option and click to change the location of the cursor which is extremely useful when copying and pasting long commands and wanting to change small parts of it

[@TheYooToob2000]

I’m taking a Linux class now (total beginner) and had no idea you could do this kind of stuff in the terminal. Pretty cool

[@LovecraftianGodsKiller]

Luckily, most of the things you can do in the terminal in Linux, you can in MacOS and vice versa. I'm primarily a Linux user, but if I had to choose between Windows and MacOS I would choose MacOS any day because of how similar it and Linux are.

[@martinb.770]

The so called userland (aka GNU environment), including the bash/shell, grew together between the BSD and Linux world. There is a bunch of system commands, that still are different for BSD/Mac, but just a small number compared to the overlapping parts. If you use Homebrew or the MacPorts (you can even use both aside), you get a repository that offers the an increasing number of projects (shell based, but also GUI/X/Qt etc.) from the Linux world. It's no wonder, Apple ditched many features (=all non-Mac specific services) from the old MacOSX Server, because most people will use the more common pendants of webservers, DNS, DHCP, mail, .... from the GNU ecosystem, anyway.

[@carnavalesenpanama]

The last tip will help me A LOT as a developer when I need to install packages and stuff on my Mac. Thank you!

[@alexjr181]

Cmd+Shift+4 then press the space bar. Now you can choose which entire window you want to take a screenshot of.

[@talha-raja]

Chuck is coming up with exactly that content which I am learning right now. Legend 💫

[@PeteRatcliffe]

Quickest 11 minutes ever! Nicely done.

[@kodymiller1602]

This came just in time. I’ve been recently working with macs more at work so this is helpful.

[@zippyz4170]

That screen capture with command+shift+4 just changed my workflow. Thank you!

[@nonanleon]

Ctrl + shift +command +4; are you talking about this combination?

[@petrocksgarage]

@@nonanleon Try command-shift-5, change to Record Selection in the HUD that appears, to create screen recordings. Bonus points to enable Show Mouse Clicks in the Options popup in that HUD.

[@MoodyCodes]

Bro that was lit!! Loved the sudo with Touch ID and the find password for wifi.

[@sebastianhildebrandt]

I can only click "like" 👍 once for this video but I wanted to click it 50 times (for every tip)... awesome!!! My absolute favorite KZbin channel, always having fun! Thank you so much!

[@moazabuobida9433]

Hey man, your videos are fantastic. Can you make a video about installing macOS on non-apple PC using the open-core method? I think you are the best who can explain it!

[@greggdingle3882]

Fantastic! From very useful to very fun. A hook came down and caught one of my fish from the asciiquarium. Keep up the great work!

[@karanrajpurohit132]

Last one was The One I really needed with my new mac

[@iuriigrytsai392]

Hey man! You’re crazy! I’m excited about your expression and how you do a job - teaching people. Just realised that you have bug bounty basics courses and other interesting stuff at your academy. So. I’m going to subscribe immediately! Thank you once again for digging me into IT.

[@konsl3133]

That screenshot with clipboard is amazing. I was always upset that i had to take it from the desktop!!! Man u just improved my life!!! 😂

[@ilyagurenko4190]

thank u sir ! that was actually very nice, especially the wifi pass and the caffeinate

[@eugrus]

As someone who has been using Linux since 2004, this is the first video ever that got me interested in getting a Mac!

[@hmdz150]

Mac is Unix and a modern UI on top of it. You can always run Linux in Mac using parallels.

[@eugrus]

@@hmdz150 thanks, cap!

[@FahimX95]

im not a mac user but its nice to see that you cover the most of your audience. Cheers

[@SteveUrich]

Great Video. I haven’t used UNIX in quite a while, but your video made me remember just how powerful it can be. What I would love to see are some of the commands that can be used to organize your files.

[@thebozzIDW]

29 seconds into this video and it is already awesome.

[@sklise1]

Thanks! All the stuff with cloudron, and raspberryPi stuff.. super awesome. Figured i could at least buy you a cup of coffee...Have a great thanksgiving.

[@NetworkChuck]

Thanks Steve!! I can always use more coffee ☕️

[@FrankPerkins]

Tip #49 is killer! Thanks for sharing.

[@limbicbrain3748]

Fantastic stuff. Just to add the last command also works on apple watch. So not only does sudo work with touch ID, but if you have apple watch configured to unlock your mac, it will work with sudo.Great stuff!

[@bunnybird12]

This was super cool. Would consider myself a Mac power user but I didn’t know a lot of this.

[@Luiblonc]

Thanks, NetworkChuck these commands will certainly push me further in the terminal - especially with a cup of brew! :)

[@jeffreyhatfield7989]

Incredible video. Bought an M1 air last year for my wife, after this video it might get way more use from me!

[@mkdn]

This is pure gold! Thank you 🙏🏻

[@sirflimflam]

That touchid sudo was the best gem for me

[@jerrysz3155]

Hey, good stuff. I used many of these regularly except for nano. vi for terminal or gvim for the stand alone. Also, for simple stuff 'cut' command is pretty good, and the one I was surprised not see in your video was 'find' - that one I use daily. Also cd -, !! and !$.

[@sCealt]

Also: ".." will go back to parent folder, "~" will go to home folder, "wget" followed by an URL and optionally a path will download a file from the internet in current folder or specified folder, drag & drop a folder from the finder into the terminal will copy the full path. typing just a path without "cd" will go to the path. Also (regarding screengrabs), Cmd+Shift+5 enables screen recording mode :)

[@braer240]

yeah ive only ever used .. , also can you explain why he uses cd ~/Desktop instead of what ive always used just simply cd Desktop, or if you really want to cd /Desktop, what does the ~ do?

[@stopper0203]

This video was very enjoyable to watch. Thanks NetworkChuck!

[@NajaUS]

You contents are awesome bro. Leaning a lot from you. Keep the good work up man

[@MrTechnology83]

Thank you for this great video…… I’m new using MacOS, in a old MacBook Pro that I recently got, but I could say this OS is superior compared to windows OS in many ways, I’m use to MS win but you can see and feel the difference.

[@eb8246]

Amazing content; fast and serious:) loved it, thank you

[@nomirrors3552]

Here's a bonus tip: Is there a really long file name you don't want to have to type? No problem. Just drag that file INTO your terminal window. Bam, it prints out the file name including the full path. Easy.

[@us_f4rmer]

Now THAT is a great extra, ty @nomirrors3552

[@HungarianManbeast]

the touch id sudo is a killer! thanks Chuck

[@christopheanfry2425]

Thank you so much for all of these unknown and useful commands.

[@squilliam79]

This is the first time I’ve watched a tips for OS video and learned something new and useful

[@Gael_AG]

The touchid trick is mind blowing 🤯🔥

[@emiel333]

Great and useful commands, thanks! Want to see more Mac videos like this one.

[@vincentfinn292]

Very good video, as always! Thanks!

[@codemaniadev]

Man, the touch id with sudo is a life saver ❤❤❤

[@phaberest_]

Knew every of them expept the last one and yeah it was definitely worth watching the entire video!

[@nevergonnabesilent]

Dude, you're awesome. Keep the great content coming

[@arunachalamm3399]

I guess you are the only channel which makes even an advertisement so interesting to watch!!!

[@rudya.hernandez7238]

Saving this video for future reference. Thanks Chuck.

[@h00t3r]

I've learned alot from your channel..Thanks NetworkChurck!!!

[@not.securewifi]

I suggest 1/2 speed playback for network chill chuck, plus you can keep up with the commands and take notes......1:48 "better say yes nick, Ima lock you in a limmittle space" (at 1/2 speed) thanks for putting this together @networkchuck new fan and love your work.

[@seanki]

I like you more and more, great format on the video. I’m gonna go play with my Mac, thanks 👏🏼🔥

[@itspervez17]

Thanks for the sharing

[@G0nz0uk]

This is great, I hope you do another!

[@Xe4ro]

2:10 you can also change the default location using cmd-shift 5.

[@supriyochatterjee4095]

Awesome, waiting for Windows Server, Active Directory, VMWARE, Networking top troubleshooting commands videos soon, thanks a lot

[@fifthmaple]

You are the only reason I am understanding everything in networking now! You make learning so fun! One question though, the command to download brew where is that?

[@Sonnii]

idk

[@mrfordsclass]

Sharing this one as well with my students. Thank you.

[@tagheuer164]

Thank you for that eye opener video!🙏🏽

[@steverae68]

OMG - need more Mac videos - I work as a senior consultant with O365 and Azure for my day job so obviously use Mac’s at home because they just work….. need more max videos….. Like all good IT people though, I do drive a lot of coffee too ❤

[@raphostrovsky]

Awesome, no enough good material about this elsewhere. More macOS!

[@KasimSheyi]

You just gained a new subscriber. Awesome content

[@metallicapirate]

CMD+SHIFT+5 also opens a Screenshot menu so you can choose multiple options like where to save the files, and whether to save it to clipboard by default.

[@sargismartirosyan9946]

Big fan Network Chuck 😀 love your all videos 🙂

[@swap2505]

the content of this video is amazing btw, thank you Chuck !

[@ibashyougood]

Would love to see more mac tips n Trix :D this is awesome!

[@sens5551]

We'd honestly be lost without you, thank you chuck!

[@borisvukcevic1454]

Do a Google search and you would see you're fine. This existed long before he made this video.

[@borisvukcevic1454]

No, no one is lost without Chuck. I think you need to stop smoking his pipe. XD XD XD

[@ahmedahmedx9600]

@@borisvukcevic1454 you right ! People need to start learn how to search for information or they will be stuck until someone explains stuff

[@sens5551]

@@borisvukcevic1454 yea I know but I meant it as a thanks for all the videos he posted overall throughout the years.

[@kargasounds6451]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@Avesta.]

Ha! Most of those I already knew but that last one is the bomb! You rock dude!🍺

[@AbhinusWonderWorld]

Super Video Chuck Your videos are Awesome

[@MarkNorgate]

That last sudo one was worth the whole video 👍🏻

[@nithinkumar4664]

It is very useful sir thank you 😊

[@gabrieljuarez8840]

I will love more stuff for Mac. thank you

[@RobSlayerRodeoDrive]

Network Chuck's videos are the best. So much fun to watch. 😜

[@digsbious]

Thank you Mr. Network Chuck.

[@xoxoxo-42]

Love ya chuck keep ‘em coming brother

[@rhpmpp]

We need another video like this..! Please upload moreee

[@xjype]

Awesome content, keep it up man!

[@parsonsmarcus]

I have to say that I freaking love Dashlane! I wish I saw your code because I just outright bought it a couple months back, but it's been a crap ton better than NordPass or especially ExpressVPN Keys. I love it!!

[@watermelonboimemez]

thanks so much for this i have always used a mac and wanted this for so long do more mac videos please

[@JoeAddison72]

Love the sudo touch ID thing!

[@choy211995yt]

I love the last touch ID bypass!

[@mukangwakalonda7726]

you were born to be a master, thank you so much , you are not a teacher but you are headmaster

[@KregSteppe]

cd /somedir takes you to another directory, once you are in it and you want to go back to the previous dir you were in, cd - (cd and a dash)

[@lawrencemayer1212]

*Truly Outstanding* TY

[@NayJ2008]

Hey bro, found you almost a week ago, I've been really enjoying your videos. You're like the Peter McKinnon (One of my favourite photography based KZbinrs) of computer networks lol and hey, you both love coffee ;)

[@WonderTwin89]

The new studio looks awesome, Chuck!

[@fernandochow2629]

One of the awesomest videos!! Thank you

[@nils_skycloud]

for copy, use command shift 5, there you also can change the save location it change also the location for the other ones

[@itsjiraheta]

thanks, some I knew and some were just 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@Santana09133]

Helped me a lot! Good video!

[@sanguineel]

Thank you for chapterizing

[@gkennedy_aiforsocialbenefit]

Been follwing you for years. Thank you for your excellence.

[@PraveenRai]

@NetworkChuck thanks sharing such a informative video..some of commands you discussed is very handy... btw if you not mind would you please help me to know the font and color scheme you used in this terminal ...it's really crisp and eye pleasing ... i would like to try

[@juanleche5382]

This was incredibly helpful 👏 👌

[@alexandruradu1119]

Just started a new job and they handed me over a mac. Total noob there, this video couldn't possibly come at a better time. Thank you