Available on Mac Linux

The most popular system tool on Mac OS X

The Terminal is the GUI frontend for Apple OS X and Linux Operating Systems, which allows the user to interact with a computer through a command line interface.

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  • Justin Daigle fanatic
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    Love it. Only person at my school who can use one without screwing something up. Windows Command Prompt has a thing or two to learn from OSX Terminal, like adjustable window opacity.

  • ATALIBA TEIXEIRA devotee
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    My favorite tool on Linux and other Unix operational systems.

  • Michael van Rooijen expert
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    The Terminal really is a beast! Once you get used to using this, you can't use anything else.

  • Gil Freund devotee
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    The real thing

  • edtsech devotee

    omnipotent thing!

  • faltino expert
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    All-in-one utility. It's my life ;)

  • Martin Koppel expert
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    how else would I get around

  • Kye fanatic
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    I didn't expect such a great terminal application from Apple, a company that is kinda trying to hide the UNIX back-end from its OS X operating system.

  • naarcissus expert
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    A great tool.

  • Slippy Douglas expert
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    The latest version, in Mac OS X 10.6, is essential, flexible, and incredibly useful. I have no major gripes; the styles are fairly customizable, the keyboard handling is adjustable, and it has tabs.

    The only issues I can think of are issue common to Apple-built applications: slightly "buggy" window placement/sizing (or annoying auto-placement/sizing), not "workspace oriented" (can't save a preset cluster of windows and tabs), and no reliable plug-in architecture.

    Regardless, it's an essential tool that blows the Windows terminal out of the water and is hard to beat at free!

  • Hong Zhenchao expert
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    Ha, Terminal is the 7th most popular apps among TWiT group members, that says a lot about it :) And yes, I love Terminal.

  • tehkemo devotee

    Why would I choose OS X without Terminal? Very important app!

  • pedrosalgado expert
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    Without it, OS X wouldn't make sense to me!

  • Benoit Nadeau expert
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    Does the job. Has lots of features I don't use. Alpha-channel transparency is a must. Sometimes I still have to revert to a *real* xterm for some UNIX systems like Solaris.

  • sergeyzen expert
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    just terminal)

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Website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Developer: Apple Inc.
License: Bundled
Version: 2.1
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Usage: 7 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 hours, 22 minutes and 15 seconds
Usage since: 09 May 2007
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