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Hacking the Mainframe: Getting Acquaintedīefore we get started, let’s talk about the working directory. If Terminal is brand new for you, start here. Once you know how to launch Terminal and input commands, you can come back here to expand your knowledge. This can make learning Terminal tricky, and not a little bit daunting. Fortunately there’s nothing to be anxious about: great power is at your fingertips, and you need only learn the right macOS Terminal commands. But while it gives users more power, it also ditches the graphical interface we all know and love. Terminal will then spit out a few lines of code indicating that your zip file has been unzipped and the files within the folder should now be available on your desktop.Terminal, sometimes called the command line interface or CLI, is a text-based program for interacting with your computer’s deepest levels. Joshuas-MacBook-Pro-2:desktop joshuaerickson$ unzip test.zip This means to Change Directory to Desktop. Joshuas-MacBook-Pro-2:~ joshuaerickson$ cd desktop

Last login: Wed Jan 28 13:47:29 on console When you have terminal open, type in the following commands.

You can either search for Terminal in upper right corner or locate it in the Utilities folder, which is in the Applications folder.

zip file to the desktop, it will make it easier to find your. Windows/PC users: Try WinRAR should a workaround be needed to unzip a folder! Step 1- Move.

You can also access it by searching for Terminal in OSX's search function, located in the top right part of the screen within the Finder. It is located in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. Terminal is an application that provides provides text-based access to the operating system, in contrast to the mostly graphical nature of the user experience of OS X, by providing a command lined interface to the operating system.