How to open terminal on mac. As you know MacOS runs on Unix and sometimes there is a requirement to run commands through mac terminal. Let's Find out how to. Commands marked. are bash built-in commands. Bash is the default shell, it runs under Darwin the open source core of macOS. In macOS Catalina the default shell will change to zsh and in time this page will be updated to include that. Discussion forum Links to other Sites, Books etc. “Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully.
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Terminal User Guide
You must be an administrator or root user, also called superuser, to execute many of the commands used to manage a server.
For example, if you’re not an administrator or a root user, entering the shutdown
command gives you an error:
This is because the shutdown
command can be run only by the root user or by an administrator user with root user privileges.
To run commands with superuser privileges, use the sudo
command. sudo
stands for superuser do.
The following example works on computers with macOS installed, so don’t run it unless you want to restart your computer:
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% sudo shutdown
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You’re asked for the password of the current user.

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Only administrator users can use sudo
. If you’re not logged in as an administrator, you can do so by entering the following command, where adminUsername is the name of an administrator user:
You’re asked to enter the password for adminUsername, after which a new shell is opened for that user.
If a command requires it, you can use su
to switch to the root user. Under normal circumstances, you shouldn’t log in as the root user.
Important: If you use su
to log in as the root user, be especially careful, because you have sufficient privileges to make changes that can cause your computer to stop working.