Learn to navigate the Mac Terminal and master Bash commands with our step-by-step guide for novice Mac users, including file management and scripting.
This course is your go-to guide for learning the Mac Terminal and Bash. Perfect for beginners, it walks you through navigating files, managing permissions, and even writing scripts, all in a fun and easy way!
A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to the Mac terminal and Bash environment specifically designed for novice Mac users
Overview
This is a comprehensive course designed to show how to use the Terminal app in Mac OS X and many Bash shell commands, many overlap with Linux or other *nix variants.
The course currently covers the following:
Setup and installation of tools used in this course (outside the Terminal app)
How to navigate while in the Terminal (file and directory oriented)
How to manage files and directories (create, edit, delete, etc)
Temporarily elevating to admin rights when needed
Changing permissions on files and folders
Writing simple Bash scripts
Each one of these concepts is demonstrated in a methodological, step-by-step manner so you can follow along for easy learning.
Course Outline
Introduction provides an overview for the course.
Installation provides step-by-step instructions on how to setup Terminal and all the related tools for the course.
The Basics provides the first look at several core or foundational commands. While learn how to get around, manage files and even some simple ways to use the output of commands.
After the basics are covered, we dive into permissions related concepts by assuming admin user while we change permissions on files and folders.
Finally, we cover some more Advanced topics like writing a Bash shell script and customizing the Bash environment.
Course Features
Presentations provide audio/video training of conceptual ideas in each major area or introduction of new concepts.
Screencasts provide a video of the instructor's computer system with any actions, commands, or screens displayed and narrated. There are several hours of screencat video content -- it makes up the vast majority of the course. Any command line based screencast will include a command listing in the lecture downloads.
At the end of each section is a document lecture with a listing of commands or a brief tutorial regarding the video content covered during that section.
Use the Mac Terminal app with confidence
Write simple bash scripts
Customize the bash shell environment
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Relay good... Simple Concise and to the point... to recommend to help any novice understand Terminal... relay helpful and instructions are clear... Many thanks...
Very well explained for TOTAL beginners!!!!!! just have to adjust to small changes done within terminal.
Great
NO video! Only audio work
Great course! Thank you.
Well explanations and good examples.
The course was informative but lacked in some of the information I was looking for. The instructor went a little fast through the demo's making it hard to follow along. The OS was also an older version than what is out now and there are some noticeable differences.
Great course. Only feedback is that I wish there was a comprehensive cheat sheet included rather then having 3 separate command files.
An outstanding training course for beginners like myself!!!
I now feel confident on dealing with command centric systems like Git.
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Charles L.
Excellent content. We need an updated version for default zsh on newer macOS versions.