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Terminal is an application that allows you to run commands within Mac OS X. It's located within the Applications folder.

==Files and folders==
In Finder, you can see folders and interact with them in a visual manner. Terminal does the exact same thing with words instead of icons.

Generally speaking, Terminal will allow you to work with one folder. By default, you'll start in your user folder. Type <code>ls</code> and hit enter to see a list of the files within the folder that's currently active. You should see Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, etc., just as you would in the Finder window for your user's home folder.

Picture your folders as a tree: What you see when you double-click the Macintosh HD logo on your desktop is the very base of the tree, and everything branches out from there.

==Moving through the file structure==
The name of the current folder (or "directory") will always be visible in Terminal, before your username. The command to move among folders is <code>cd</code>, as in "change directory."

If you want to move into your documents folder, for example—which is further out into the branches of the tree—you'd type <code>cd Documents</code> and hit enter.

<code>cd ..</code> moves up a level in the tree—that is, one level closer to the trunk.

The <code>cd</code> and <code>ls</code> commands should cover most, if not all, of what you'll need to do in Terminal that isn't already part of [[Make a Tarbell|Tarbell]].

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	<code>cd ..</code> moves up a level in the tree—that is, one level closer to the trunk.		<code>cd ..</code> moves up a level in the tree—that is, one level closer to the trunk.
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		+	If you're in Documents but wanted to open Pictures, you can combine those two commands to go up a level and then follow a different branch:<code>cd ../Pictures</code>.

	The <code>cd</code> and <code>ls</code> commands should cover most, if not all, of what you'll need to do in Terminal that isn't already part of [[Make a Tarbell\|Tarbell]].		The <code>cd</code> and <code>ls</code> commands should cover most, if not all, of what you'll need to do in Terminal that isn't already part of [[Make a Tarbell\|Tarbell]].

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 ==Files and folders==
 In Finder, you can see folders and interact with them in a visual manner. Terminal does the exact same thing with words instead of icons.
 Picture your folders as a tree: What you see when you double-click the Macintosh HD logo on your desktop is the very base of the tree, and everything branches out from there.
 ==Moving through the file structure==