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App Directory: The Best Terminal Emulator For Mac OS X

Mac OS X includes a great terminal editor, but among the handful of alternatives is one that easily rises above them all. iTerm2 is our pick for the best terminal emulator for Mac OS X thanks to its vast number of time-saving features and high level of customisability.

October 5, 2011
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Boom Is A Badass Text Snippets Tool For The Command Line

Boom is a command line tool that allows you to store and retrieve text snippets from your command line — sort of like Texter or TextExpander for your Terminal.

September 29, 2011
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Interactive Tutorial Teaches You How To Use Vim Text Editor

Vim has long been praised as one of the best text editors around, mostly for its completely mouseless navigation. However, it can be very confusing for beginners. This interactive tutorial gets you started so you can edit text files with blinding speed.

September 15, 2011
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Add A Handy Separator Between Commands In Your Terminal On Mac OS X And Linux

If working in the Terminal gets a little confusing because you run so many commands at once, this little trick will put a separator in between each prompt so you can easily see the last few commands you ran.

August 27, 2011
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Ask LH: How Can I Make The Windows Command Prompt Better?

Dear Lifehacker, I’m familiar with the Unix command line on Linux and OS X, but I’ve recently switched to Windows and the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) feels, well, kind of crappy. How can I make it a bit more useful and user-friendly?

June 29, 2011
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Get Shit Done Blocks Distracting Websites So You Can Do As The Name Instructs

Get Shit Done is a command-line utility that blocks popular, known-to-be-distracting websites so you can get your work done. Even if you’re not a command line pro, it’s pretty simple to use and blocks time-sucking sites without fail.

June 9, 2011
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How To Quickly Find And Replace Text Across Multiple Files With One Command

If you need to find and replace the occurrence of a word, phrase, URL or whatever, and it’s in several documents, this can be a really tedious task. If you’re running Mac OS X, Linux, or really any Unix-based operating system, you can use the command line to save you a lot of time and effort.

June 7, 2011
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How To Quickly Launch Control Panel Items With The Run Dialog

Windows: For quick access to individual Control Panel tools, like display options and administrative tools, type some simple commands into Windows’ run dialog. It’ll save you the hassle of jumping through the default Control Panel view’s hoops.

May 24, 2011
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Open Hidden Menu Options With The Shift And Right-Click Shortcut

Right-clicking on a file or folder brings up a context-sensitive menu, but sometimes that menu doesn’t show all your options. Hold down the Shift key when you right-click to find hidden but useful commands like copying a file path or expanding the Send To options.

May 6, 2011
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Learn To Love Your *nix Command Line With Obscure Tools

Kristof Kovacs put together a list of 20 hugely useful command-line tools, all available for Mac OS X. Users can install any of them by using Macports on their Macs, while many of the tools are also available on various Linux distributions and can be found in the installed package managers. [Kristóf Kovács]

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