| Dates | See my public calendar for open classes or trainer availability |
| Length | 1 day |
| Cost | 325 $/person including muffins and lunch onsite |
| Where | Onsite, or lab rental at INIS (métro Berri-UQAM) |
| Infos | Contact marioblais@me.com |
| The cost presumes this activity will be delivered in your organisation with your hardware/network and a minimum of 4 people participate. |
Who’s this for
System administrators, technical support staff and resources, really advanced users or self-learners that want to learn and start taming this unfriendly tool. Prerequisite : at lease 10 hours of serious tryouts with Terminal.
Brief
Terminal, it’s a dark, cold and complicated tool where we feel we’re back 40 years in time on our nice looking Macs! It’s been there since 2000, in our standard toolbox on every Mac, you know you can do stuff with it.
This is a relaxed 7 hour workshop with demonstrations in front and much practice to demystify the Unix command-line world that will be an important part of your maintaining Macs. Review of basic notions, directories, permissions, covering about 30 day-to-day commands for managing, networking, navigating, 3000$ tips and tricks, remote access, converse with Dave Ash™. Everything is in place for a brief technical rendez-vous with much fun in discovery.
Use of a Mac lab preferred, but you can also bring in your own laptop running macOS (any version).
The day
- Terminal?
- Reasons to understand and use it
- Ways to access it
- Getting to know the shell (that window where you type commands)
- Navigating volumes, folders, getting at files
- Use of the following commands and more :
- ls, cd, cp, mv, su, sudo, man,
- top, ssh, chmod, chown, diskutil,
- fsck, id, history, last, nano, who, reboot
- Create, open and save text files in an editor (no mouse)
- Access and search internal documentation
- Redirect input and output, filter thousands of lines easily for that word
- Observe system use and resources, network performance
- Create your own shortcuts to facilitate many tasks
- Remote access via SSH, a lightweight and secure communication protocol
- Permissions on files and directories
- I want to be “root”! Who’s root?
- Get to past (complex) commands easily, keyboard shortcuts too
- Integrate command-line within Automator
- Create your (maybe) first Unix executable
Get your tech friends together and, yes seriously, have a ton of fun with the command-line!
Enrolment
Information requests and enrolment via email please.
In Québec, I always hand out presence certificates from Emploi Québec (C.P.M.T.), and modify it slightly for Ontario and other provinces.
Assured fun and creativity in technical learning.
Mario Blais
Apple Certified Trainer
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
Apple Certified Support Professional