How To Use Terminal On Your Mac - Command Line Beginner's Guide

[@ready2fry]

A quick note for people using Catalina: the esc + esc list-command doesn't work anymore. The way it works now, is that you put in the specific first letter of the command you look for, e.g., a or y, and press Tab twice. The terminal will show you all the commands starting with the character of choice.

[@ezequielmartinez3582]

thanks, I was literally trying to figure this out at the moment.

[@ready2fry]

Glad I could help out bud

[@binaypalsingh9446]

to find possibilities which first letter we need to use before pressing the tab button

[@jegorkarasjov]

Oh thanks!

[@veritasdesigns5067]

Worked for me. Running 2019 MBP w/lightbar the way it works is esc esc and (y) hold down enter to see all the commands. But be windows karen.

[@superayoung]

4 years later and your video is still helping those in need

[@n1npo]

exactly! same for me!

[@meganmcdermott8763]

This is wonderful seeing both the back end and front end comparisons. Clarifies a lot on using command prompts with Linux, Mac, and Win platforms. Thank you! Hope to see similar videos like this with other commands.

[@acolytes777]

Best video on the terminal for mac in youtube

[@edenbarta3353]

this is great. please do more- you explained it really well. its scary for a beginner.

[@mauricejohnson1068]

SO SCARY! lol im in a msu coding bootcmap trying do the assignments and every time the terminal is mentioned im like scared because idk how to work this thing, and it has nothing to do with actual coding so i was panicking. this video and a tutoring session is what helped me big time

[@MochaRose990]

Great tutorial!! Every other tutorial makes this seem like rocket science. Such a relief.

[@ICANTHEARHER2222]

Great tutorial! I had to try to work with the terminal and opening python-related files so I want to become more familiar with the terminal now and this was very easy to understand

[@jserenson]

Hi I am looking for the full list of all commands that you said will be posted this week right here. Is there any follow up videos on the terminal. This was a good tutorial and i was hoping for more on the terminal. You explained it well

[@oscarlevipaguada]

Thank you a refresher is always nice.

[@giokakhiani]

Great video! Thank you so much!

[@alialinda2507]

Thanks so much this is really going to help me as I am studying

[@charuarora6621]

Make video on more commands.. this video is amazing

[@PO-yj8dw]

A great tutorial. Thanks

[@olliemclaughlin3160]

Thank you for sharing this, it's a great into to Mac OS terminal! Are you going to be doing an advanced level tutorial like this as well? It seems like there are a lot of people who make vids for Mac terminal and just stop at the basics, it would be great to see some more in-depth functionality on such a powerful tool.

[@Howfinity]

I’m still learning it myself for more advanced options. But I’ll try to make a video once I learn enough to teach it. Currently I’m just playing with the long list of commands and trying to use it over the finder when I can

[@MM-bw1lo]

Awesome, thank you so much so helpful

[@BrinleyBlogette]

Thank you!! I am taking a FS Bootcamp and using GUI makes sense to me. It's like minute I see a black screen with neon numbers, letters of special characters, I go blank. Preaciate your help!

[@TobiOgundipe-p9g]

Great tutorial bro

[@n1npo]

esc+esc twice in terminal doesn't work in macOS Sonoma. It doesn't show any commands or the y/n option to list all commands. Does anyone have any idea!?

[@janebisgrove753]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you

[@mageshboopathi5214]

million thanks to you my friend ✌️

[@polyglotmona]

Thank you so much. I assume I had an issue with authorisations on my Macbook, as when executing the command "rm -r test" in the desktop directory the first time, I was asked if I really wanted to delete the folder on desktop, but the second time I made a test folder and deleted it, I wasn't asked again. Where do I see which authorisations I have?

[@gauravteotia1989]

Sir, am using Monterey 12.7.6 & not able to find all possibilities threw esc+esc . Help

[@mehmettokmak4749]

Hello, thanks for this helpful video. I just can't run the ESC button, when I click twice, nothing happens on terminal, I think it's because of the Touch Bar.

[@lanegratomasa420]

Do you have any videos on issues with files on a usb drive saying 0 bytes?

[@CritterMama-f9j]

I downloaded an application and it installed in the terminal, what are the commands to move this application to the desktop sort can be used. macOS Sonoma 14.5

[@CoreChannel_INC.]

for people who cannot do esc esc, just put this cmd in terminal "bash" it will change the language to bash and the esc esc thing will work!

[@Essi888]

I couldn't catch how to exit from the text editor to the main terminal page. Could you please help?

[@sparkeyluv]

When I run the ifconfig command, it shows the network mask in hexadecimal numbering. Could the netmask be shown in decimal or cider form?Make video on more commands.. this video is amazing

[@viper1x2]

thank you...I installed jest and lost it. this helped a lot!!

[@CaramelCraft]

Cmd+K also clears the terminal

[@nawabali385]

Hi! Double esc press is not working not even on 5 - 10 tries, now what should we do to access these possibilities. Thanks

[@ready2fry]

The esc + esc list-command doesn't work anymore. The way it works now, is that you put in the specific first letter of the command you look for, e.g., a or y, and press Tab twice. The terminal will show you all the commands starting with the character of choice.

[@leelee84701]

the esc esc thing doesn't work for me no matter how many times I try it

[@GachaRobloxianAndrew]

Same

[@sanjivinikabadi466]

What code can i use when i have to recover photos that are deleted from recently deleted from my iPhone ?

[@Harold-w6r]

@ready2fry 1st of which! You have a super dope name but do you know how to navigate Mac to find documents that haven't saved and are not backed up? An for Mac's operating on 10.11-12 are there any updated Terminal key strokes or anything I should be aware of? Because I see that you are very thorough and you have helped a few people out. I just want to talk to someone knowledgeable other than watching these Terminal videos and nothing really working for me to locate highly classified documents? An again, super dope name lmao.

[@g1creations562]

hello, i have a problem in my terminal i tried to install flutter in my mac few months ago at that time i have changed all the path now even i change the path its not responding now i couldnt install mwsql in my mac due to this path issue can you say how to reset the path in my terminal

[@bfewjr]

This is amazing

[@No_to_slavery]

hi, my terminal is gone. all I can see is : "Last login: Tue May 5 08:29:01 on ttys007 [İşlem tamamlandı]". (it means "job completed") I was making sth about bash profile and trying to save sth, I think i did sth wrong and terminal is not responding now, whatever I push. how can I fix it. even apple doesnt know, I called them. on the top, its written that " Terminal -- java_home --bash 80X24" and " Terminal -- bash --bash 80X24 " its trying to command sth. its blinking for like 2 minutes and then stops. it turns to just " Terminal 80X24 " thank you very much..

[@AzimKhan-of5rj]

double esc isnt working anymore or theres a problem with my laptop lol please explain. i would really appreciate.

[@ExtraMedium777]

I had same problem in zsh. type bash then hit enter to switch to bash then double escape works

[@rushabnagar6759]

thanks dude

[@toobitoob896]

Even after making a folder, I still couldn't find it in finder. How can I fix it?

[@Rahmagole]

XMD Sync with MacBook

[@jordanova4001]

When I press esc, it never shows any option to do anything. Why is that?

[@Jvdzzz]

double tap it

[@democracybacksliding]

hit escape 2 times [exc+exc], listen for a soft ping &repeat, [exc+exc]

[@chucko9549]

@@democracybacksliding nothing pops up when i repeat tapping it

[@ready2fry]

The esc + esc list-command doesn't work anymore. The way it works now, is that you put in the specific first letter of the command you look for, e.g., a or y, and press Tab twice. The terminal will show you all the commands starting with the character of choice.

[@ExtraMedium777]

works in bash but not zsh. not sure why @@ready2fry

[@fortheloveofit5317]

You can also access terminal from launchpad!

[@vaibhavjaiswal1309]

my opean command is not working what should i do??

[@Izzatillakhon]

it doest work on my mac 2021 when I press 'esc' twice nothing shows

[@pemaangyagurung848]

thank you

[@jayrecords9353]

I get stuck on Esc never works :( any help?

[@ExtraMedium777]

your in in zsh. type bash then hit enter to switch to bash, then double escape works

[@jameschrist758]

Why is my terminal command ends with # instead of $?

[@nzz2]

1:50 start .. 5:30 create a file

[@smoothtalktoem]

10/10

[@jeetsarkar1989]

esc did not work for me

[@annaradkevich167]

Green command prompt

[@mindfulnessrock]

your reference to both the CLI commands and the prompt as 'code' was quite irritating . i mean there's a plethora of other close terms without venturing into UNIX technical jargon .

[@gracesimba6323]

I can’t find my username

[@JanJørgensen-d9y]

Hva' så Tim Mikkel Andersen, er du her?! Var du jomfru, før du mødte din nuværende kæreste lol

[@1967DS21]

The guy is teaching you wrong. Command 'cd .. ' DOES NOT bring you to the ROOT directory. It brings you one directory UP. Typing 'cd' without DOT DOT brings you to the your 'home' ... which could be the ROOT directory too.

[@RbxPr]

I didn't understand anything for I was forced to study in a holiday

[@infotruther]

don't do dat dude😊

[@supermario807]

ls /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin