macOS Terminal (zsh) - The Beginners' Guide

How does the macOS terminal work, why should I use it and what’s the difference between a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a Command Line Interface (CLI)?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:32 The Shell
1:31 GUI vs CLI
3:39 Mac Terminal & zsh
5:01 Finder & Terminal
5:54 Root, Users & Home Directory
7:20 Print Working Directory & List Items (pwd & ls)
8:55 Change Directory (cd, cd .., cd / and cd ~)
12:30 Absolute vs Relative Paths
16:08 Creating Files & Folders (touch & mkdir)
20:27 Removing Files & Folders (r & rmdir)
23:05 Understanding Flags and the "man" Command
23:53 Removing Folders Containing Data (rm -r)
25:44 Copying Files & Folders (cp)
28:19 Moving Files & Folders (mv)
29:45 Renaming Files
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[@thevoid141]

Wow. You didn't waste a single minute. Guide is well made and answered all in questions in 30 mins! Comparing GUI and terminal side by side made it much easier to understand. Thank you!

[@marilia8243]

Thank you so much for this video! I am currently in a coding bootcamp, and they go over how to use terminal, but it's all written instructions and this video really really helped me see what it is i am doing, and actually understand! Thanks for taking the time to make this video!

[@justinwest7765]

👏👏👏 absolute gold! I'm an absolute beginner and this just made so much sense! I'm shocked at how well you delivered this information and made it understandable. Thank you for taking your time to make this video!

[@Illack]

I've tried to start learning SQL and Python, but couldn't figure out how to change directory and that's all I needed to find out but this video taught me a whole lot more! very good video thank you :)

[@Coccoutube]

Excellent! This was exactly what I was looking for. Start from the basics (with theory) and building up step by step

[@rebeccacosta5883]

you are seriously the best instructor. Ive watched so many videos about terminal and this is by far the best and most detailed. Well done. I'm starting this journey and will for sure be looking for more of your videos.

[@user-wl2rb3rh5c]

How was your journey? Any tips for the newcomers? :)

[@oanacristea2572]

This was exactly what I was looking for, a comprehensive explanation of a terminal. Thank you!

[@Parshuram_61]

I had almost entirely forgotten how to use the terminal window. Your tutorial helped me remember everything once again. Thank you v much !!

[@nitram_nosnibor]

That was EXCELLENT! Thank you Manu 👍🏻

[@mohammedzaid5989]

This was really helpful! ♥️

[@AceWhitelite]

Clean, concise, informative, and well thought out. Thank you, this was immensely informative and helpful.

[@grafxdesigner93]

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What an excellent tutorial, thank you very much for the great content!

[@industryrule-4080]

This was immensely helpful. Thank you.

[@tsesangdolkar5067]

Thank you ! You are a great tutorial and cured my headache 🙏

[@user-bv8op4hf4c]

I was struggling in debugging the problem of zsh: command not found, until this educative video was found. It was helpful.

[@ibrahimabdeltawab6418]

It’s so helpful! Thanks so much

[@mikeyrue]

I'm just starting and I found this video very helpful. Thanks. I'm going through a course, but it is all text based, and I needed a "show and tell" type of instruction. I will probably look for other videos you have as I continue on my journey.

[@RianY2K]

thank you for tutorial. this tutorial can be practiced in linux too :) and dont forget to customize your terminal with oh my zsh and some shell theme like starship / powerlevel10K

[@blackodelia8005]

thank you very much for this tutorial hands down the best one I have seen!

[@sigangsabaglari3606]

This is amazing, made it so easy for me Z-shell

[@mok614]

Thanks for the video! It was very helpful and informative!

[@rolim22]

Very good tutorial! Thank you for sharing!

[@ritendrasingh7491]

Nice video as a refresher!

[@frwiss]

sooooo clear! thanks! subscribed!

[@josephgarza5973]

That was a very helpful video. Thank you kindly.

[@robertoaraujo6367]

This video was very helphul. Thank you!

[@bakhtiyor_sulaymonov]

thanks for the video. It was helpful to refresh terminal commands

[@Aman-Verma]

Thank you !!❤

[@uttammitra5683]

Thank you for clear and easy understable lecture😊

[@shivamd23]

Thanks For Making This Video It Was Very For Me As A Beginner 😊

[@user-nc4mf1ud3c]

thank you for such a clear explaining!

[@mosh5521]

Love it! Thanks for making the video.

[@saracordero]

you're a great teacher. thank you

[@frajadita]

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[@MrSkyydude]

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[@chesb6426]

thank you so much! you solved my main problem

[@nuriddinburkhonov5214]

Thank you, very helpful!

[@azzrays]

you're a lifesaver!! thank you :D

[@mdirfanmdaref1058]

I am subscribing to you! good detailed & clear video for beginners. Actually I am learning for fun, no idea what I can do with it though.

[@CanDoSo_org]

Great class, thank you.

[@konstantinschwemlein2809]

Perfect Video, thanks a lot! :)

[@janshellew3248]

Thank you - very helpful

[@palmito104]

Great explanation 🎉

[@taylorwade1537]

thank you for this!!

[@TheCoinPursuit]

Great video! for a beginner this was perfect :)

[@binface9]

Great video with very clear descriptions. I wish the same could be said for man command in zsh! As you said: cryptic!

[@mariuslazar7025]

The fundamentals! Thank You!

[@Lusselly]

Thank you very much, it's easy to understand...

[@devanshijain4395]

thank you for this. It was a great video

[@singh__walia]

Very helpful video!! Clear, Concise and to the Point. No bullshit! 💯

[@marquisedavis2344]

Thank you. Very well done.

[@fangzhi_zhao]

Very clear. I was always a little bit afraid to learn terminal myself.

[@speakyopeacetv6795]

How is your progress comin along

[@bvedantcodes]

As long as you're not sudo'ing anything (or at least sudo'ing not knowing what you're doing) keep exploring and learning..!

[@jacksonhoyt4127]

thank you my man

[@alexandrei64]

Thank you for sharing this! Any chance for a more advanced guide?

[@milosivackovic]

Thanks man!

[@seselimbu5881]

Heartfully thank you so very much and thank you.

[@taras3028]

thanks for explaining

[@SQARM1]

Thus is great session on macOS trminal

[@Another0neTime]

Excellent video so far!

[@academind]

Thanks!

[@Klauschumacher]

EXCELLENT PERFECT VIDEO!!!

[@josuecruz0921]

Great video. Thanks.

[@alankavanagh2911]

Very good ! Thank you

[@immortalkarin]

great tutorial

[@nicolunardelli]

Great Video!!!

[@eugeneL_N1E104]

awesome tutorial on zsh! curious if we can have git later. thx!

[@svetlanamaru]

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[@bbluca94]

Amazing!

[@TheFoggyMan94]

Thanks a lot!

[@ctrade8837]

Mr. Legend

[@adem6501]

Thanks. your advice works ) Like

[@ControlDialedin]

This is really good. Personally having issue with python not being recognized in terminal and hope this helps

[@GRumpyonekinobi]

awesome! thanks

[@milescampbell568]

Very informative! Thank you. Does anyone know any videos for installing stuff from the zsh command line interface?

[@cardinalraven]

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[@ramasamynp8175]

Can you please upload more videos about Mac OS?

[@VedKaila_Guru]

very useful

[@yuppp1473]

Thanks

[@gundamfortress]

I have a question regarding bash and zsh scripting: if I work in a company or enterprise, should I rather use bash (for scripting) instead of zsh? (Some scripts using zsh are not running on bash?). Could I possibly run into troubles? I'm not so good with bash and even less good with zsh. Thank you for your answer 😀

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[@djlez_za]

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[@mat5844]

Thanks a lot for this video. I've a question on the touch command, and that is it doesn't allow me to create directories. Anyone else ? Is this about zsh version or config? Thankss

[@Dimeadozen2088]

what tool do you have installed to make your script.js and styles.css be green ?

[@paulbailey6251]

Everything worked for me except the 'mv' command when moving 'web-dev' to 'web-dev'. I copied your commands precisely (and repeatedly) but I get this response: "mv: rename ..web-dev2 to web-dev/..web-dev2: No such file or directory". I mirrored my file naming using your examples - except I called my 'zz' folder 'Testing'. All of your examples worked except that one. Great tutorial but I wonder why this one problem. Also, could you answer a real puzzle that I have. I'm on an old Mac Pro running Catalina and my terminal now uses the 'zsh' system which is why I followed your tutorial. I used to be able to run the command 'ifconfig' but not any more. I am now unable to discover my ip address because all I get is a screen full of what looks like encrypted data - I can't make 'head nor tails' of it. No trace of my ip address.

[@raitasorin]

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[@mluke1384]

The tilde key command (Option + N) on a Mac doesn't appear to be the same as using the tilde key. Am I missing something?

[@Bembol01]

how about reseting terminal to original.coz I accidentally typed something in the terminal, now I can see a lot of shortcuts and folders in my finder.how to reset it?

[@techgenius6068]

Make a video on design pattern

[@madisonmad4891]

Подскажите, прописал команду xcode-select --install и теперь у меня постоянно вылетает терминал. При установки приложении при ошибки когда приложение закрывается. Как его убрать?

[@invalid.reference]

How come your zsh has autocomplete when hitting tab out of the box? The only way I can get that functionality is by editing the .zshrc file.

[@KillerKingdom]

After very long time, why so many space?

[@unicornbubble4704]

Ive done everything but it wont start up, the circle from the linux app is always spinning but nothing comes up. Ive closed the terminal after everything was done. Schoud ive saved the commands or smth. like that? i dont know whats wrong. Can you help me?

[@jpnoita2223]

i am using mid 2011 and i have updated Catalina using Patcher but i am not able to enable airdrop option even i have tried to use defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1 in terminal but still no shows. please help if any one have idea.

[@AtharvJoshi-jc7ow]

how can I keep that path on the command line itself so that I don't ever have to run pwd everytime I want to see my path? (like in ubuntu)

[@aleksandrmatyka3118]

Could you pls create tut where explain how use bash scripts for frontend for example, some examples how we can create bash script and cases where it can be usefull

[@RakibFiha]

Finally someone said zsh correctly. Zed sh. Perfect.

[@nrgking1667]

Nah yeah I’m like what cause I was moving one file to another folder but when I did mv example.txt ./tester the example.txt just disappears and I can find it idk what I’m doing wrong I don’t get the difference between using “.” and “..” ? Help plz I don’t get it I’m new

[@adrian-4767]

Academind we need a new course called "Complete web developer bootcamp" from zero to hero.

[@fbenfrank]

Are you using a root user or an admin because it doesn’t seem to work with my admin user.

[@chenjin1562]

What does % mean in every line?