MacOS has plenty of handy CLI tools ready to be used. Each of these tools is free and easily installed. I know what you're ...

The OS X Terminal opens up a world of powerful UNIX utilities and scripts. If you're migrating from Linux, you'll find many familiar commands work the way you expect. But power users often aren't ...

TidBITS readers likely know that macOS is based on Unix and that opening the Terminal enables them to interact with files, folders, and apps at the command line. For the majority of Mac users, the ...

Web browsers have evolved into do-it-all devices, but they’re not always the fastest or most efficient tools for the job. The built-in macOS command line, on the other hand, is all about efficiency ...

If you're sick of waiting for the progress bar to complete every time you reboot after a macOS software update, then you'll be pleased to learn there's another way to update your Mac that could ...

Click to viewThat Mac you're viewing this web page on using a pretty graphical interface? That's a Unix-based system which can run the powerful and age old command line utilities of the most advanced ...

If you’ve spent time in Terminal, more than likely you’ve made a typo or two—or two hundred thousand, if your typing accuracy is anything like ours! It’s one of the banes of working in Unix—after ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Believe it or not, the Mac GUI can't do everything -- or at least not as quickly or powerfully as these command-line utilities For most casual users, the OS X command line, accessed via the Terminal ...