Posts tagged Unix

Basic Terminal Commands

This is an old article on a blog, but one I hadn’t seen and even those of us who started on Apple DOS or PCDOS and have some idea what Terminal commands should look like will find this useful.  However even those of us who stated that way can be intimidated by being in the Terminal application for Mac OS X. NewSourceMedia blog has an article on the basic terminal commands to get you started. Continue reading »

FileInfo

You found a file with an extension that won’t open. What is it? This web site can tell you.
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Revive dead hard drive with Terminal

I Stumbled on this article and think we should all learn more about Terminal’s utilities that are part of Unix and thus free. Continue reading »

DotWhat.net

Ever wonder that application a file is related to? Of course, we know what .doc or .xls means and even .pdf. What about others? Continue reading »

Command Line Mac

We all know that the Macintosh’s OS X has a command line, similar to that of DOS on the PC or the Apple II. That was a change from Classic Mac Systems which were GUI only. Continue reading »