Mac Terminal for Beginners

Name: Mac Terminal for Beginners
Uploaded: 2026-10-20T04:58:07+07:00
Duration: 6 min 38 s
Description: What the Mac Terminal is, how to open it, and how the shell and the prompt work.

Mac Terminal for beginners, in a video: what Terminal is, how to open it, the shell and the prompt, and how to open Terminal right in a folder.

This video explains what the Mac Terminal is and how to start using it. It shows how to open Terminal, what the shell (zsh) does behind the window, how to read the prompt and why you never type the prompt symbol, and how to open Terminal right in a folder from the Finder. You can also watch it on YouTube.

For more on each of these, with the commands to copy, see Mac Terminal.