Terminal (Apple)
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 Terminal 2.1.1 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) |
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| developer | Apple |
| Current version | 2.9.1 (421.1) (2018) |
| operating system | macOS |
| category | Terminal emulator |
| License | Part of macOS (formerly OS X, Mac OS X) |
| www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/ | |
Terminal (also known as Terminal.app ) is the terminal emulator by Apple for macOS . It has its origins in the predecessor of Mac OS X, NeXTStep ; Both systems are based on a BSD - Unix on core. With this program, users can work with a command line interpreter , by default this is a shell called Bash .
history
All Mac OS systems (1984-2001) before Mac OS X (developed from 1998, first published in 2000) were not Unixoid and did not have a command line . The NeXTStep operating system from NeXT and its successors Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X, which are based on a BSD kernel (released by Apple from 1999 also separately as Darwin ), have both a command line and a terminal emulation .
With Mac OS X 10.0 ("Cheetah," 2001), a terminal emulator was first introduced on a Mac system. Under Mac OS X 10.1 ("Puma," 2001) new character encodings could be used in the terminal , with Mac OS X 10.2 ("Jaguar," 2002) support for Unicode , transparent backgrounds and split windows was added.
Version 2.0 of the terminal was delivered together with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5, 2007). Tabs and window groups were added as new features, and the appearance of windows could also be saved. However, the split windows disappeared at the same time. These only came back with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6, 2009), which also brought a 64-bit version of Terminal with it.
In Mac OS X Lion (10.7, 2011) the terminal got some new features again, such as the full screen mode and blurry transparent backgrounds and support for 256 colors (xterm-256color). In addition, active and inactive windows can have a different appearance.
Functions
It can be emulated following terminals (Mac OS X Snow Leopard, 10.6, 2009): ansi, ddterm, rxvt, vt52, vt100, vt102, xterm, xterm-color. From Mac OS X Lion (10.7, 2011) onwards xterm-256color.
As Shell any shell can be used; Bash was standard up to macOS 10.14, zsh has been standard since 10.15. Pre-installed shells are bahs, csh, ksh, sh, tcsh and zsh.
A special feature of the program is that a search in the Help menu not only highlights suitable menu items (as is usual with Mac OS X), but also displays suitable man pages . Clicking on a manpage opens a separate terminal window with the manpage. For example, a search for "get" not only returns a split window , but also z. B. getconf (1) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Apple Support: Start Mac in single user mode or mode with verbose log ; Quote: "You have successfully entered single user or verbose log mode when you see white text on the screen." Retrieved October 26, 2016.
- ↑ Mac OS X 10.1 - Review on ArsTechnica
- ↑ Mac OS X 10.2 - Review on ArsTechnica
- ↑ Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Review on ArsTechnica
- ↑ Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Review on ArsTechnica
- ↑ Mac OS X 10.7 Lion - Review on ArsTechnica
- ↑ Zsh instead of Bash: That's why macOS Catalina comes with a different shell. June 27, 2019, accessed June 11, 2020 .