When you open it, Terminal presents you with a white text screen, logged in with your OS X user account by default. What is Terminal?Īpple's Terminal app is a direct interface to OS X's bash shell - part of its UNIX underpinnings. While the average person should never have any reason to visit Terminal, Apple's command line interface app actually does give you access to quite a few neat tricks and shortcuts.
(Well, as much of a mutual respect as one can have between a human being and a code window.) OS X's command line and I have never been what I'd call 'friendly' rather, we have a mutual respect and understanding about not messing with each other.
