These are the basic macOS Terminal commands to know for updating a Mac, forcing an unresponsive Mac to shut down, finding the differences between files easily and much more. Under the hood, macOS X ...

Underneath its candy-coated Aqua interface, Mac OS X is based on Unix, an operating system that dates back to 1969. Unix and its archetypal user interface, the command line, look alien to many Mac ...

OS X’s Help menu is fantastic, if underrated. It even lets you find menu commands by highlighting them when you search within the Help search field. If you hit enter after typing in a search term, ...

We've had this discussion a few times in the past, but I think we're due for a fresh look with how much Terminal has improved over the last couple of OS X versions. So let's see your aliases, EXPORTs, ...

Every Mac user should know how—and when—to turn to the Terminal. And he or she should also know how to shut down a truly recalcitrant app or a stubbornly frozen Mac. lsof lists all open files and the ...