By mastering the open command and understanding how to navigate and open folders from the Terminal, you can enhance your productivity and leverage the full potential of your Mac.

While you can manually enter the commands to edit files in Terminal editors, in OS X you can set up a service to open files in a desired terminal editor from the Finder's contextual menu.

How to Execute a File in a MacBook Terminal. The operating system your MacBook runs, OS X, is built on top of UNIX, and Terminal provides you with access to the underlying UNIX system commands.

When you double-click a file on your Mac, the operating system will automatically open the file using the program assigned to that type of file. It is possible, though, to open the file using ...

Wish you could move a bunch of folders all at once or instantly move every file of a certain type into a new folder? Using your Mac's Terminal commands may be the answer.

Any files that start with a period on a Mac are considered hidden files in the Mac OS and are not visible from within the Finder. You can see these hidden files from within the Terminal utility by ...