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In classic Mac OS System 7 and later, and in macOS, an alias is a small file that represents another object in a local, remote, or removable [1] file system and provides a dynamic link to it; the target object may be moved or renamed, and the alias will still link to it (unless the original file is recreated; such an alias is ambiguous and how it is resolved depends on the version of macOS).
The cd command can be used to change into a subdirectory, move back into the parent directory, move all the way back to the root directory or move to any given directory. Consider the following subsection of a Unix filesystem, which shows a user's home directory (represented as ~ ) with a file, text.txt , and three subdirectories.
Move to beginning of line Home: Home: Ctrl+A. or Home. Move to end of line End: End: Ctrl+E. or End. Reverse search of history F8: F8: Ctrl+R: Pause execution of the current job Ctrl+Z: Insert the next character typed verbatim Ctrl+V: Autocomplete command/file name Tab ↹ (enabled by default in Windows XP and later) Tab ↹: Tab ↹ (usually ...
Larry Tesler created the concept of cut, copy, paste, and undo for human-computer interaction while working at Xerox PARC to control text editing.During the development of the Macintosh it was decided that the cut, paste, copy and undo would be used frequently and assigned them to the ⌘-Z (Undo), ⌘-X (Cut), ⌘-C (Copy), and ⌘-V (Paste).
On these computers, users can access a Unix-like command-line interface by running the terminal emulator program called Terminal, which is found in the Utilities sub-folder of the Applications folder, or by remotely logging into the machine using ssh. Z shell is the default shell for macOS; Bash, tcsh, and the KornShell are also provided.
In computing, a file shortcut is a handle in a user interface that allows the user to find a file or resource located in a different directory or folder from the place where the shortcut is located. Similarly, an Internet shortcut allows the user to open a page, file or resource located at a remote Internet location or Web site.
The ln shell command normally uses the link [7] system call, which creates a hard link. When the ln -s flag is specified, the symlink() system call is used instead, creating a symbolic link. Symlinks were introduced in 1982 in 4.1a BSD Unix from U.C. Berkeley. [8] The following command creates a symbolic link at the command-line interface (shell):
Command-line completion generally only works in interactive mode. That is, it cannot be invoked to complete partially typed commands in scripts or batch files, even if the completion is unambiguous. The name tab completion comes from the fact that command-line completion is often invoked by pressing the tab key.