Terminal

You will need to use a “Terminal Emulator” to run commands in this guide.

macOS comes with a default Terminal, however you may find it a bit lacking.

Many people at Made Tech use iTerm 2, however there are also other terminal emulators such as Hyper.

You will see this $ at the beginning of command. You shouldn’t include it when you try to run a command.

An aside

The $ does have a meaning!

• $ signifies you should run a command as your “unprivileged user”
• # signifies you should run that command as root

To Do

• Read up to (and including) 1.1 in Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous (just before “Our first command”).
• Download an install an alternative terminal