This is a good lesson for anyone new to terminal to learn: Don’t type commands in without understanding what they do or what they are for.

As for most users not having any use for Terminal and CLI, well that’s a good thing if you ask me. First off, it’s a true testament to the work Apple has put into Mac OS X that an average user can accomplish absolutely everything they want to on their computer without ever having to type in a command yet even hard core users can accomplish anything they want using the tools they prefer. It just doesn’t get any better than that.

I admit: that was a bit immature and short sighted. Please accept my apologies. I know some OS X users and they’re all Mac fan boys. They don’t care at all how their hardware or software is build as long as there’s a shiny apple on it. When they see a terminal they panic. Hence my reaction. Most Mac users won’t ever use these commands.

False: I’m not jealous at all. I could install Mac OS X on all my PC’s if I wanted to, but I won’t because I like to be in control of my machine. They just ripped some BSD code and build their own GUI on top of it without giving anything back to the community. Suckyness!

You might also try deleting the com.apple.Terminal.plist file located in ~/Library/Preferences/

That’s the Library folder in your user account’s home folder, not the one in the root of your hard disk.

Good luck!

when I launched the terminal.app
it doesn’t do any command it looks more loke a Text editor
every thing I wrote and press enter just jump to another line and nothing happens
Look
http://triny.org/no-site/pictures/print/erro%20com%20terminal.png

I’ll try and install an update across the drive in question, I have another bootable ‘admin’ drive.

Trying the ’safe boot’ now…
thanks once again!

You might try the following:
1. Boot in safe mode (hold SHIFT while booting)
2. Boot from Mac OS X install disc, run Disk Utility and repair the disk as well as disk permissions.
3. Boot from an external hard disk and attempt to install the 10.4.11 Combo update for your processor type, Intel or PowerPC.

Good luck!

My work drive (OSX 10.4.6) hangs, and wont complete start up. I ran Tech Tool Pro and the following appeared:

“Startup File
This test checks the Startup file. The parameters within this file contain the information used by the computer ROM to determine what program will boot the computer as well as other system-specific aspects.
Startup File ”

Clearly I need this file, or to create a new one. There is a bootX file still, but that may be irrelevant.

What to do? bless? How?

BTW, I’m an audio engineer and no jack shit about terminal unix commands.

i have installed CLIX from apple download site, a compiled unix command that can you run with click on your mouse

anyway i am still looking for good guide unix command on mac os x

cheers

SSH in and run “top” or “ps -ax | grep AppleVNCServer” to discover the process ID and then run the kill command.

This way you don’t have to remember the full path to the ARDAgent app.

http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1508

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

puts the screen-saver on the desktop until you close the terminal window.

and if your “open with” command ever gets cluttered up with a bunch of old software you don’t use anymore try:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

finally everyone who doesn’t leave their computer on all night should run the following every month or so.

sudo periodic daily weekly monthly

drutil eject

Shutdown your computer.
Turn it back on and hold the mouse button all of the way through the boot processes.
The CD/DVD will auto-eject.