Command + 4: View as Cover Flow (Mac OS X v10.5 or later) Command + Comma (,) Open Finder preferences: Command + Accent (`) (the Accent key above Tab key on a US English keyboard layout) Cycle. In this post, I will about Windows Command Line (CMD) and Mac OS Terminal Navigation Commands. Knowledge of CMD/Terminal commands may be needed for using command line interfaces (CLI) of applications where Graphical User Interface is missing, or when CLI provides a faster/easier way to perform a task.
- If you use Command-Tab to switch to an application that has minimized windows, those windows won't show up. But one Mac OS X Hints reader found a workaround.
- In these tab-based applications, I can toggle between tabs by holding down the Command and Shift keys and tapping the or keys to determine the direction I will be toggling to. If I would like to open a new tab, I can hold down the Command key and tap the t key once.
Sometimes, even the simplest tasks can be forgotten if not practiced and repeated. In this short tutorial, I am going to show you some basic command line commands in Microsoft Windows, and their equivalent commands in Apple Mac OS Terminal. This is by no means a complete reference to the available commands, just a short list of some common commands available to you on your operating system. In this post, I will about Windows Command Line (CMD) and Mac OS Terminal Navigation Commands.
Knowledge of CMD/Terminal commands may be needed for using command line interfaces (CLI) of applications where Graphical User Interface is missing, or when CLI provides a faster/easier way to perform a task. Let's see some of the commands
The CMD/Terminal window
To open the CMD window in Microsoft Windows you may follow several ways, one of them being choosing Run option from the start menu, typing 'cmd' in run window, and clicking 'enter'. This will open the CMD window in Microsoft Windows
- CMD window
Here you will see the version of the Operating System, and the path to the home folder. The white sign in the picture points your current location in the disk. Home folder is the usual starting point when you open CMD window.
In Mac OS you will usually find the Terminal in Other programs folder. When you open the terminal, you will see the name of the current folder. If you want to know the full path to the current folder, you can type pwd and see the full path.
Command Tab Plus
List files and folders
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| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| dir | ls |
Here you see the list of directories in my home folder
- Listing files in a directory with dir command in Windows CMD
Move to directory
If you want to change your current directory to another directory, use:
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| cd 'path to the folder' | cd 'path to the folder' |
When you execute the command by pressing 'enter' in your keyboard, if the path is correct, you will see that you current folder will change to the new path.
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Get back to parent directory
If you want to go one directory up in the directory tree, execute:
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| cd. | cd . |
and you will see your current directory will change to the parent directory. Please note that in windows two dots are connected to cd, and in MacOS there is a space between cd and dots.
Get to the root
Wherever you are in the directory tree, you can move to the root directory by executing:
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| cd | cd / |
This will get you to the disk root of the directory tree.
Create a directory
Creating a new directory is done using
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| mkdir MyFolder | mkdir MyFolder |
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Remove a directory
Removing a directory first requires the directory to be emptied from contents, and then be removed. Removal commands are:
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| rmdir MyFolder | rm -r MyFolder |
Rename a directory
To rename a directory execute:
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| rmdir | mv oldName newName |
Rename a file
To rename a file execute:
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| ren oldFileName newFileName | mv oldFileName newFileName |
Delete a file
To delete a file exeute:
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| del filename | rm -Rf filename |
Delete command does not ask for confirmation, so please be careful.
Check the Path
Some programs need to be added to the PATH in order to be accessible through command line interface. If you want to check your current path, you can execute the following command:
| WINDOWS | MAC OS |
|---|---|
| echo %path% | echo '$PATH' |
This will print current path variable and you can check if required programs are added to the path.
I hope this helps.
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Since 10.7 you can use Command-Shift-X to toggle viewing vs controlling in Screen Sharing.
So you can switch from the remote machine to the local machine from the keyboard depending on which one you want to use Command-Tab.
I can't make CMD-SHFT-X work in ARD, nor do I see an option for this in Services. Is there something I'm missing?
The shortcut is actually Cmd-Opt-X.
ARD 3.6.1 and that doesn't work for me either.
I for one, like the fact that command-tab and other functions go to the remote machine. It's as if you're sitting at it, which is nice. When I use other screen sharing apps, I get annoyed when command-tab and other commands only work on my local machine, especially when trying to change 'spaces', because many times there's no other easily accessible way to do it on the remote machine. I think some things that would make remote machine work easier would be:
1. Something to make hot corners easier to activate when not in full screen mode.
2. Drag and drop to copy files to and from the local/remote system.
3. Warning dialogs when your system decides to quietly turn off back-to-my-mac (happens to me on occasion)
4. Back-to-my-mac shortcut icons for specific machines I can put in my dock (actually, I think I may have just answered this one myself - You can save a .vncloc file from the file menu of the Screen Sharing app)
5. A keyboard button (with an LED) to enable the screen sharing server and/or back-to-my-mac for when your monitor dies so you don't have to ssh in and muck around with defaults write commands
6. More intuitive copy clipboard icons (it doesn't make sense to me)
7. A listing of back-to-my-mac enabled computers to choose from when launching the screen-sharing app (instead of just a box to enter a host URL)
8. The ability to enable at least a very lo-fi audio connection so you can hear beeps from the remote system or at the very least an audio level indicator in the toolbar or some sort of local tone indicating the remote machine is making a sound
9. When a back-to-my-mac machine is offline, show it greyed out in the side-bar with a warning icon you can click to get the status instead of removing it completely without a way of finding out why it's not online
10. Some sort of indicator on the remote machine that tells users physically at the machine that a remote user is logged in.
11. The ability to screen-share using a different user account in the background instead of the currently logged-in user
12. An iPhone app for screen sharing via back-to-my-mac (like LogMeIn)!!!
13. The ability to temporarily indicate a second Apple-ID in the screen-sharing app in order to share with a remote computer running under a different Apple account
OK people, let's get cracking on these hints..!
Dear robleach,
These are already true from your list:
2. Drag and drop to copy files to and from the local/remote system.
Works great in 10.8. Both directions.
7. A listing of back-to-my-mac enabled computers to choose from when launching the screen-sharing app (instead of just a box to enter a host URL).
I love 'ScreenSharingMenulet'. An oldie, but still works fine under 10.8. It lists all recently connected machines and lets you make a list of remote ones in a drop-down menu.
11. The ability to screen-share using a different user account in the background instead of the currently logged-in user.
The OS 10.8 Screen Sharing client already asks which account you want to log into, and goes into the background if it's not the current physical user. This step is skipped if you set a login username and password in Keychain, so check there if you don't see these options.
12. An iPhone app for screen sharing via back-to-my-mac (like LogMeIn)!!!
Any iDevice VNC app like 'Mocha VNC' or 'iTeleport' connects fine to Mac Screen Sharing servers. I use it all the time from iPhone and iPad.
If you're requests were specific to 'Back-to-my-Mac' rather than just Screen Sharing, then maybe you need to run Dynamic DNS instead. The above recommendations find any of my servers regardless of dynamic IP thanks to DynDNS.
