Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Knowing a few key terminal commands to speed up your Mac can optimize your device in numerous ways. While taken individually, these Terminal tricks may not show drastic improvement in speed and ...

The Mac’s Terminal is at once scary and powerful. It’s like a whole other computer living underneath the pretty interface of macOS. Sometimes, it’s convoluted. Other times, it seems laser-focused, ...

Buried underneath your Mac's pretty interface is a decades-old backbone called UNIX, and you can use its old-school Terminal for running simple commands that aren't accessible from the apps or menus.

The Terminal application in macOS is one of the most useful tools available. Although some users prefer the more user-friendly approach of a graphical user interface (GUI), it’s important to remember ...

Terminal power users already know that a log of all the commands you execute are kept in history. (Go ahead, type history to see them.) Last week we saw that you can sudo your previous command using ...

How do you write great code? By being efficient. If you want to create something awesome, you’ll have to eliminate the time dumps that slow you down. With just a few tricks, you can speed up your work ...

The Linux terminal may seem rather daunting when you’re accustomed to Windows' menu-based interface, but its utility is nothing to scoff at. Rather than forcing you to navigate through a barrage of ...

We've had the thread before, but I like casting the net out every once in a while to see who's doing cool stuff with their OS X bash environment! I've picked up a few neat things, which I've stuck in ...

Maybe it's because I started my computing journey in the DOS days, but I'm not scared of the Linux Terminal. There are plenty ...