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Dev tools · July 29, 2017

Terminal (macOS)

Terminal emulator included in the macOS operating system.

Terminal (macOS) launched on July 29, 2017 with 6 votes, #1,197 of 2,972 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

Terminal is the terminal emulator included in the macOS operating system by Apple . [ 1 ] Terminal originated in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP , the predecessor operating systems of macOS. [ 2 ] As a terminal emulator, the application provides text-based access to the operating system, in contrast to the mostly graphical nature of the user experience of macOS, by providing a command-line interface to the operating system when used in conjunction with a Unix shell , such as zsh (the default interactive shell since macOS Catalina [ 3 ] ). [ 4 ] The user can choose other shells available with macOS, such as the KornShell , tcsh , and bash . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The preferences dialog for Terminal.app in OS X…from en.wikipedia.org

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