On Dec 18, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Patrick Gillam wrote:
--- Vaj wrote:
sparaig wrote:
It's the commandline Mac GUI interface
to the UNIX shell. Careful,
you're playing with fire if
you use it. An administrator
account + command line = god on UNIX.
No, I think you meant to say "Terminal".
The "Console" is just your
system feedback window.
Anyway, I thought access to the Unix
shell was supposed to be a good thing,
letting hackers and developers under
the hood, so to speak, to develop
ever-cooler applications. Us
run-of-the-mill Mac users would be
unlikely to stumble into that zone.
Well actually there are a lot of neat, easy things you can do from
the command line. For example when you go to save things, there is
this "sheet" that appears, which comes out at default rather slow,
you can adjust the speed of this. You can change actually a large
number of settings this way. I like to have the debug menu visible in
Safari for example. There are a number of free apps out there which
will do this for you--and turn the changes off again if you like. An
important one to do regularly if you don't keep your Mac on overnight
is the cron commands, as these will execute the various maintenance
tasks.
For some examples check out:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/ct/51
Or you can use a free app like OnyX which will do it for you:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582
The UNIX side also lets you use a lot of Open Source apps.
