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UNIX Commands 101
Drag-and-drop is also at your disposal. After you play around with the
Terminal for a while, you’ll find yourself bored to tears typing the long
paths that represent the files on your hard drive. To automatically enter the
path of a file or folder to a command, simply drag it to the active Terminal
window, as shown in Figure 1-2. The file’s full path instantly appears at the
location of your cursor. (Thanks, Apple!)
You can even use the mouse while entering commands in the Terminal. Click
and drag your mouse over text to select it. From there, you can copy to the
Clipboard as you might expect with any other application.
Figure 1-2:
Drag a
file from
a Finder
window into
Terminal to
display its
path.
UNIX Commands 101
To use the command line effectively, familiarize yourself with the commands
that are available to you. After all, how can you use a tool without knowing
what it can do? Despite having to memorize a few commands, UNIX usually
makes it easy on you by abbreviating commands, by following a standard
grammar (so to speak), and by providing you with extensive documentation
for each command.
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