I am experienced in the windows terminal. however, I am inexperienced with the Mac Terminal. It is Unix I think. Correct. Can I edit the terminal? I feel like this is a rookie question but, there it is.
MacBook Air, macOS 14.5
macOS is compatible with UNIX and has various UNIX command shells, yes.
Terminal app supports ANSI escape and control sequences compatible to those used with a DEC VT terminals, which allows cursor positioning and many other display-related functions.
You can use various provided or add-on text editors, as well as invoke GUI text editors. vim, emacs, and pico, among other options.
If you’re just learning the shell, I’d suggest using and experimenting in a second macOS login, as that and avoiding using sudo means you can’t damage your main login environment. While you can’t damage macOS itself (due to SIP, system integrity protection), you can potentially damage your own files in your own logon with any errant commands.
Terminal with zsh is roughly akin to Windows Terminal PowerShell in capabilities, and rather more than the classic DOS box with HyperTerminal (the old buggy one that used to be integrated with older Windows, not the newer and works-better one directly from Hilgeave), for those of a certain age..
Hi,
I'm not sure "edit Terminal" you mentioned, though if you mean edit environment of Terminal, first step is copy environment dot file from /etc. Following command you can do that.
cp /etc/zshrc_Apple_Terminal ~/.zshrc
Using MacBook Terminal.
