Tweak Your Mac Terminal

Chapter 1: System Setup and Requirements

·      Introduction

·      Requirements

·      Installing XCode

·      Resources

 

Chapter 2: Basics of the Terminal

·      Where is the terminal

·      What is the terminal

·      Built-in manual

·      Text editor

·      What is a shell?

·      Moving around

·      The filesystem

o   Pwd

o   Cd

·      Permissions

 

 

Chapter 3: Customizing Your Terminal

·      Customising the look (background/foreground colour)

·      Aliases

·      Paths

·      Ln - Aliases / shortcuts

·      Prompt

 

Chapter 4: Built in Commands Provided by macOS

·      Lsof - Eject a drive with an open file

·      Which - where is your command?

·      Open

·      Say

·      Sysctl for system state

·      Compression - gz, zip

·      Finding content in files

·      Find a file name

·      Search and replace - Sed

·      Spot the difference in text files - Diff

·      Copy and paste

·      Built-in Psychotherapist (emacs)

·      Downloading files

·      Scheduling with launchd

·      Running processes

·      Sudo

·      Pretending website is somewhere else

·      Remote shell

 

Chapter 5: Brew

·      What brew is

·      Why use brew

·      Installing brew

·      Finding applications in brew

·      Installing applications from brew

·      Brew maintenance

·      When things go wrong

 

Chapter 6: Extra Applications

·      Tmux

·      Cowsay

·      Figlet

·      Lolcat

·      Archey

·      Linux utilities missing from macOS

·      head, tail

·      formatting xml, json files

·      grep

 

Chapter 7: Services

·      Using terminal to access content

·      Weather

·      Star Wars

 

 

Chapter 8: Oh My Zsh

·      What is oh My Zsh

·      Installation

·      Themes