Improving Terminal in OSX

Out of the box, using terminal in OSX is pretty abysmal. The built-in terminal application is inflexible and ugly, to say nothing of bash itself which is missing several handy tools that, once you’ve used them, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without them. Homebrew Homebrew is the missing package manager for OSX. It’s essential to developing on a mac. /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" Note: this should install xcode automatically if necessary, but if it doesn’t, run sudo xcode-select --install...

August 7, 2020 · 3 min · 545 words