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layout: page
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tags: toolbar
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category-page: basic
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category-title: Basic commands
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author: Marzio Lunghi
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title: MacOS terminal toolbar
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previous-page: pages/cmd/basic/0-openshell.html
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next-page: pages/cmd/basic/2-closeshell.html
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---
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Once the MacOS Terminal app has been opened, a menu bar will appear exactly in the upper
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left corner of the screen. This menu contains some preferences that could improve the user
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experience and use of the Terminal.<br>
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The menu is divided into 6 sections that I will describe briefly to give you a basic knowledge
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that could be very useful once you have become familiar with the program.
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<h3>Terminal</h3>
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<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/cmd/basic/bar-terminal.png" width="30%" alt="Open from Finder" />
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<ul>
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<li><b>Secure Keyboard Entry</b>:
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Inside the Terminal section you will find the item “secure Keyboard Entry”, this tool
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allows the user to enable an additional system security.<br>
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Essentially, this option prevents other Application from seeing what you are
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typing on the shell.<br>
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It also prevents processes that are working in background from
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monitoring your keystrokes.<br>
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In a first moment it seems that it doesn’t do anything, that’s because for
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people who works on their own personal computer, this additional secure may
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become an unnecessary precaution.<br>
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However, this option could be very useful if you using an unknown computer
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or a public computer.
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</li>
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<li><b>Hide terminal</b>:
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Although Shell’s window does not take a lot of space, it is possible to hide
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the window by pressing <code>⌘ + H</code>.
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</li>
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<li><b>Hide Others</b>:
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In the other hand, it’s possible to hide all the others windows (except the Terminal) by
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pressing <code>⌥ + ⌘ + H</code>.
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</li>
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<li><b>Quit Terminal</b>:
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Once you have finished working with the Terminal, you can definitely close it by
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pressing <code>⌘ + Q</code>.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Shell</h3>
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<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/cmd/basic/bar-shell.png" width="30%" alt="Open from Finder" />
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<ul>
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<li><b>New Window</b>: It creates a new window.</li>
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<li><b>New Tab</b>: It creates a new tab</li>
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<li><b>Close window</b>: This option closes the window without quitting the terminal.</li>
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<li><b>Show Inspector</b>:
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This option allows the user to customise the layout of the shell.
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This option contains some profiles that you can use instead of spending
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time to create your own one.<br>
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This option is not permanent, once the terminal has been quitted, the shell is set
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with the default settings.
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</li>
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<li><b>Edit Title</b>:
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This options shows the inspector too, but it selects the current title that
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you want to change
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</li>
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<li><b>Edit Background Colour</b>:
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This options shows some useful tools to customise the background of the shell.
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</li>
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<li><b>Reset</b>: This option re-initializes the terminal.</li>
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<li><b>Hard Reset</b>: This option re-initialize completely the terminal.</li>
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<li><b>Print Selection</b>:
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This option allows the user to print only a selection of the shell.
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The text must be selected by holding down the touchpad and then moving the mouse cursor.
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</li>
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<li><b>Print</b>: This options prints all the content of the shell.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Edit</h3>
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<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/cmd/basic/bar-edit.png" width="30%" alt="Open from Finder" />
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<ul>
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<li><b>Undo</b>: Undo the last input action.</li>
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<li><b>Redo</b>: Redo the last undone input action.</li>
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<li><b>Cut</b>:
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Traditionally, the cut command was designed to move texts within applications, but,
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according to the Mac user community, it’s not very intuitive.<br>
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There is a much easier alternative way, the copy and paste,
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known as <code>⌘ + C</code> (copy) and <code>⌘ + V</code> (paste).
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<li><b>Copy</b>: Copy the selected text.</li>
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<li><b>Copy Special</b>:
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It copy a selected text by giving you more options.
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For example, if you have a black background, copy special allows you to copy a
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selected file without considering the colour of the background
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</li>
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<li><b>Paste</b>: Past the text from the system clipboard.</li>
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<li><b>Paste Escaped Text</b>:
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If you want to copy a text with special symbols, precisely code text,
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you have to use paste escaped text to maintain the text intact and not have characters
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interpreted as code.
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</li>
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<li><b>Select All</b>: It selects all the content of the shell.</li>
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<li><b>Select Between Marks</b>: It selects a portion of the text between marks.</li>
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<li><b>Clear to Previous Mark</b>: Delete the last command and its contents.</li>
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<li><b>Clear to Start</b>: Delete all the content up to the start.</li>
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<li><b>Clear Scrollback</b>: It deletes all the not visible content.</li>
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<li><b>Clear Screen</b>: It deletes all the visible content on the screen.</li>
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<li><b>Find</b>:
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It allows the user to find portions of text or words that matches with the inserted one.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>View</h3>
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<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/cmd/basic/bar-view.png" width="30%" alt="Open from Finder" />
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<ul>
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<li><b>Show All Tabs</b>:
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It shows all tabs that you created, if no one has been created it will
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show only the current one.
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</li>
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<li><b>Show Tab Bar</b>:
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It shows you a tab bar with all the tabs created, this option is
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automatically enabled when you select “New Tab” under Shell section.
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</li>
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<li><b>Show Alternate Screen</b>: It creates an alternate screen.</li>
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<li><b>Hide Alternate Screen</b>: Disable the option “Show Alternate Screen”.</li>
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<li><b>Allow Mouse Reporting</b>:
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It means that mouse clicks will be visible to whatever is reading the terminal,
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the position and click will be encoded and used by Text mode mouse-aware
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applications with standards permissions
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</li>
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<li><b>Split Panel</b>: It split every window in two windows</li>
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<li><b>Close Split panel</b>: It closes all the windows created with the "Split panel"</li>
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<li><b>Default Font Size</b>:
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It set up default font size, if the size has been increased or decreased.
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</li>
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<li><b>Bigger</b>: It makes the font bigger.</li>
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<li><b>Smaller</b>: It makes the font smaller.</li>
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<li><b>Scroll to Top</b>: Scroll to the top, at the start.</li>
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<li><b>Scroll to Bottom</b>: Scroll to the bottom, at the end.</li>
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<li><b>Page Up</b>: It scroll up to the previous page.</li>
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<li><b>Page Down</b>: It scroll down to the next page.</li>
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<li><b>Line Up</b>: It scroll up to one line.</li>
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<li><b>Line Down</b>: It scroll down to one line.</li>
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<li><b>Enter Full Screen</b>: It makes the window fulls screen.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Window</h3>
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<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/cmd/basic/bar-window.png" width="30%" alt="Open from Finder" />
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<ul>
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<li><b>Minimise</b>: It reduces the terminal to an icon.</li>
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<li><b>Zoom</b>:
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It increases the size of the window.
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By default the size is set up to 80 x 24.
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</li>
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<li><b>Cycle Trough Windows</b>: It switches between open windows</li>
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<li><b>Show Previous Tab</b>: It shows previous tab, if any</li>
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<li><b>Show Next Tab</b>: It shows next tab, if any.</li>
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<li><b>Move Tab to New Window</b>: It moves a tab to a new window.</li>
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<li><b>Merge All Windows</b>: It takes all the windows and moves them to Tabs.</li>
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<li><b>Return to Default Size</b>: It returns to default size of the window (80 x 24).</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Help</h3>
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<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/cmd/basic/bar-help.png" width="30%" alt="Open from Finder" />
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<ul>
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<li><b>Terminal Help</b>:
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It opens a useful guide that show you how familiarize with Terminal.
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</li>
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<li><b>Open man Page for selection</b>:
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Instead of digit man on the shell you can simply select the command and click on this option.
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It will give you back an external manual page with all the descriptions
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</li>
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</ul>
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