Today I'll be sharing my favorite unix commands with you. I'd write a bulleted list, but I don't think that'd be substantial enough. Just as a note, yesterday's lesson really wasn't terribly applicable to any one certain task. It was just something that every hardcore mac user should know. Today's commands are going to be a lot more useful for everyday situations.
The first command you should learn is probably "killall." Usually to quit an frozen application all you'd do is press "Command" "Option" "Escape." But there are times when that won't work.
To run the "killall" command in Terminal, type "killall Activity\ Monitor," filling in "Activity Monitor" with the name of the application you need to quit. However, just like most unix commands, each command has a few different derivatives that can be used by appending "-X," replacing "X" with another letter or number. For the variation I have in mind, you need to append "-9" to "killall." With this, it'll terminate pretty much any process you have the rights to. And as a note, unlike yesterday's "cd," "killall" is case sensitive, meaning that it won't work if you put a capital letter where a lowercase should be, and vice versa.
And the second command is "emacs." Plain and simple. What that'll do is open the command line word processor aptly named "emacs." Normally that'd be pretty boring, but besides being a pretty awesome text editor, emacs also plays games. Press "control" and "X" then type tetris and you'll see what I mean. You also may want to try "dunnet," an RPG. To quit emacs, press "control" and "X" followed by "control" and "C."
And last, but most certainly not least, is the "man" command. Rather than having anything to do with men, this command launches a manual program. To use it, type "man killall," replacing "killall" with the name of any other command you want to learn more about. You can even try "man man" if you want. To quit, just press "q."
And there's the post. If this sort of thing is something you're interested in, try downloading the application CLIX from:
rixstep.com/clix/
I highly recommend. Just try not to mess up your computer with all that power, OK?
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