Monthly Archives: December 2023

How to clear Terminal’s command history in macOS

By news@appleinsider.com (Chip Loder) The Terminal app in macOS keeps track of recent commands you’ve used so you can reuse them at a later time. Here’s how to clear Terminal’s command history.When you type commands and press return in macOS’s Terminal app, it remembers the commands you type and stores them, in case you want to reuse the same commands again later.In Terminal, you can press the Up and Down arrow keys on your Mac’s keyboard to cycle through all recent commands. As you do, Terminal replaces whatever is on the command line prompt with each command in the stored command history as you press the arrow keys. …

Source:: Apple Insider

      

How to use macOS file search without using Spotlight

By news@appleinsider.com (Chip Loder) When Mac users think about search in macOS, they often think about Spotlight, but there’s another way. Here’s how to use the Finder’s built-in search instead.Spotlight is Apple’s file indexing and search feature. It runs in the background indexing the contents of your files so that when you type something into its search field it knows exactly where to find the information you’re looking for.But macOS has had its own built-in search feature for decades. You can use the Finder’s File->Find menu item or press Command-F on the Mac’s keyboard to open Finder’s main search window. …

Source:: Apple Insider