Mac OS X is build on top of the Linux operating system. To access all the Linux commands, you can use the Terminal application.
If Terminal isn’t on your Dock, you can find it using LaunchPad.
- Click on the LaunchPad icon on your Dock to view an array of all the applications on your computer.
- If you don’t immediately see Terminal, you can find it by typing it into the search field.
Finding Terminal in Mac OS X Launchpad - Click on the Terminal icon
Terminal will display a command line prompt where you can run linux commands.
Try the following Linux commands (in the given order or otherwise) and see what happens:
- ls
- ls -l
- man ls
- ls Documents
- cd Documents
- ls
- cat
- <tab> <tab>
When you’re finished exploring Terminal, type exit to close the window.