Q: Question about Single user mode commands
hi everyone, I am a super newbie of mac system.
I search the web and the apple community, and I didnt found much information about how to use the single user mode.
Any suggested link to read and learn About single user mode and the terminal?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Sep 17, 2016 3:25 PM
Single User Mode is rarely used to do any Mac repairs. Single User Mode is rarely used on "ANY" Unix system (speaking as someone that has been professionally working with Unix systems since the mid-80's and for fun Mac OS X from the early 2000's).
Command line commands via a Terminal interface is more commonly used by Unix geeks, but most Mac problems do not need the Terminal. In some cases a problem that can be solved via the Terminal can also be solved via a graphical user interface.
If for some reason you really want to play on the command line, then there are books out there that can help give you the basics of Bash (the command line shell that controls syntax). There are books on using the Mac OS X Unix interface which is specific to Mac OS X vs other Unix platforms.
There are also books on Mac OS X trouble shooting.
Plus you can spend time reading these forms where different gems will be given out.
Strongly suggest you maintain backups, because to learn, you are going to want to play, and playing has a very good chance of breaking something. Up-to-date backups will protect you from yourself. Or have a virtual machine running a version of OS X that you can destroy and then rebuild. Or just another Mac to experiment on.
Posted on Sep 25, 2016 12:26 AM