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Recommendations on getting started with Terminal

By Chuck Winstead, 18 February, 2017

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Hello apple Vis,
Does anyone have any suggestions on where I could get lessons or information on how to use the Terminal in the Mac OS?
I know nothing of how to operate Terminal. I know some of the coding stuff kind of requires Terminal.
Thanks in advance.
Chuck

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Hi Chuck,

By Nick B

6 years 1 month ago

Hi Chuck,

I have a good deal of experience using Terminal. What are you aiming to accomplish by learning it? The UNIX shell is very broad and powerful and it's hard to really give you good direction without knowing your specific goals.

Nick

A few different Things

By Chuck Winstead

6 years 1 month ago

Hi,
I have a few different things I am trying to learn on the Terminal. First off, getting started, and then using it to control the Raspberry Pi computers, as a few folks from the Raspberry Visually impaired Mailing list recommend getting used to using the Terminal.
Chuck

i have a question

By Igna Triay

6 years 1 month ago

I know a little of using terminal, and my question is reguarding the say command. I know how to change the rate of the voice, during the say command, and I read somewhere that yyou can change the voice pitch as well. How do I change the pitch of the voice on terminal when using the same command?

The say command doesn't seem

By Nick B

6 years 1 month ago

The say command doesn't seem to have a pitch option. If you type "man" followed by the name of the command (e.g. man say), you'll get a manual for that command.

The say command shows the following options:

say [-v voice] [-r rate] [-o outfile [audio format options] | -n name:port | -a device] [-f file | string ...]

Hope that helps.

Nick

Taming the Terminal Podcast

By Chelsea

6 years ago

Hi Chuck,

I just found this podcast series at the beginning of the year and it has helped me learn terminal very nicely. The tutorials are in text and podcast form, so you can learn in whatever way suits you best.

Here is the link: https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/blog/taming-the-terminal/

If you are really, really serious about learning terminal, I'd also check out this free screen reader written especially for it. VoiceOver does have some minor annoying quirks. This is the link to the project's GitHub page, and instructions are there on installation, but let me know if you need help: https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr

Hope these resources get you well on your way to being a happy Unix user. And the best part is, all of this is right there on your Mac.

Hi there,

By SplendidFault

3 years 7 months ago

Hi there,
What is the most effective way of reading man pages on a terminal? When I try to read a large man page, VoiceOver fails to read the next chunk of the page, affectingly putting me off.

Man Pages

By Blade Runner

3 years 6 months ago

In reply to Hi there, by SplendidFault

Make sure that the "Use option as meta key" is checked in preferences/keyboard.
Vo-shift-home moves vo to the beginning of the visible page, space moves to the next page, b moves back a page, option-< and option-> moves to the beginning and end respectively.

A comprehensive resource for learning unix is at: http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst.
It doesn't matter if it is Linux as the commands are mostly the same.

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