How to open the Terminal on a Mac There are two primary avenues you can use to get to the Terminal: the Applications folder in your Finder, or searching in Spotlight. Here's a quick run-through of ...

To open Launchpad, you can click the Launchpad icon in your Dock or select the six-square icon on the Touch Bar of your Mac, if you have a Touch Bar. (Image credit: Future) 2.

Terminal provides a command line interface to control the UNIX-based operating system that lurks below macOS (or Mac OS X). Here’s everything you need to know about Terminal, and what it can do ...

With that said, though, here's the cold, hard and very un-Mac-like truth. You can do things on your Mac in Terminal, you can do useful work, that you can't in any other way.

Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to open any folder from the Mac Terminal, including some lesser-known but highly useful tips. Basic Commands to Open Folders.

To open a Terminal window in the current folder, you first need to enable the "New Terminal at Folder" service. Here’s how you can do it: Single-click on the folder where you wish to launch a ...

The truth is that Terminal lets you do just about anything you can think of your Mac, and the only reason you don't use is that there are more user-friendly ways to do so.

Setting It Up . To configure your Macâ s Terminal app to authenticate with Touch ID, first open Terminal.app (you'll find it under Applications > Utilities or you can search for it with Spotlight).

With the Terminal open, let’s set an automatic schedule for booting up your Mac. To do this, type sudo pmset repeat poweron Don’t press anything else at this stage, just type that command.

When using Terminal to set your Mac’s power schedule, you can’t enter the command for startup and shutdown separately — the Mac only honors one schedule, and it’s the last one you put in.