As a budding developer, you should constantly look for tips, tricks, and resources to make programming more efficient. Prepare to add another nifty tool to your bucket today – the terminal and command line. The command line can seem intimidating when you first access it, but once you start using it regularly, you’ll quickly start to learn how to utilize this powerful tool.

The command-line is used to enter commands to the operating system, instead of graphical user interface (GUI). This is because command-line is much more flexible than graphical interface, which is what makes it so handy to developers.

Access That Terminal

The terminal is the actual interface to the console that you can type and execute text based commands.

The Mac Tricks and Tips has this great article on some of the awesome hacks on OS X. There are a list of 22 hacks, some of which are really handy. I am going to list a few of the handy tricks that ought to be set to default on your OS X. You can copy and paste the commands here using ⌘ + C for copy and ⌘ + V for paste. View Hidden Files on. If they did, it wouldn't necessarily cause a Terminal window to be opened. If you launch Terminal, type 'history' (without the quotes) and press the 'return' key, you'll see the command history for your user. That will give you an idea of what commands (if any) were executed in that Terminal session. Media Access Control (MAC) address is a standard method of wireless network protection. This is where you configure your APs to enable only wireless clients with known MAC addresses to connect to the network. In that case, the most common hack to combat wireless networks, is to hijack the MAC address.

Use the Command Prompt or Terminal to imitate hacking. There are many commands that can be used in Windows Command Prompt and Apple Terminal to execute commands or query for information. The following commands, while looking impressive, will not damage your software and are not illegal. Hello friends, today we will learn spoofing MAC Address on Android Mobile Phones.I will give you a brief description of a MAC address. A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a 12-character unique identifier assigned to a specific piece of hardware, such as the network adapter, of your WiFi device.

To launch the terminal on a mac:

Open Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal

A Terminal displays a command prompt ending with “$” sign, in the form of:

“ComputerName:CurrentDirectoryUsername$”

You can enter commands after the command prompt. Keep in mind that you cannot access source code through a terminal. The terminal is used to execute commands that allow you to do a certain task.

Now That You’re In, Let’s Use the Command Line

The command line is the actual line in a console where you type your command. Aside from its development-related purposes, the command line is an excellent tool for automating actions, scripting, and a host of other things that are typically faster than doing them in Finder.

All commands have three parts: the utility, the flags, and the arguments. The utility is always first in the command, with the flag and argument following depending on their rules. Here is an example of a command that you would type into the command line:

When you open the terminal, it typically opens to the home directory of your computer. Using the utility “cd” or “Change directory” you can navigate to a different folder or “directory” in your computer. Here is how to use the cd utility to navigate to the documents directory of your computer.
From your terminal window type this command:

How to use the mac terminal for hacking devices

The $ is a symbol commonly used to indicate the command line. It simply means that the rest of the line is a command, rather than a sentence.

`cd documents`

This command would change from your current directory to the “Documents” directory. You can tell this has worked because the prompt before the “:” should now read

`computername: Documents username:`

Now that you’re in the Documents directory of your computer you can use the list or “ls” utility to show you all the documents you have in that folder:

`ls`

This should list out all of the documents you have in that current directory.

From your terminal window type this command:

In the example commands we show “cd” and “ls” are the utilities. Utilities are also sometimes known as commands all on their own, because they indicate the general idea of what you want. Most of the time, you can simply run a utility all by itself, without any flags or arguments. Most commands only have one utility.

The flag that alters how the utility operates. Flags are like options or preferences: the utility will usually work perfectly well with the defaults, but sometimes, you want to modify how it works slightly. Flags always start with either one or two dashes (-), and they usually come between the utility and the arguments.

In the example we give the “cd” utility and argument of “Documents/” to tell the command line which directory we want to change to. Arguments are used when the utility needs to know exactly what you want for a certain action, and there is no clear default setting.

To submit a command to the computer simply press enter.

How To Use The Mac Terminal For Hacking Attacks

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young redwood wrote:
I noticed the terminal application open on my macbook pro yesterday, but I did not open it myself. Is it possible that someone who knew my wireless password hacked into my computer remotely?

If they did, it wouldn't necessarily cause a Terminal window to be opened. If you launch Terminal, type 'history' (without the quotes) and press the 'return' key, you'll see the command history for your user. That will give you an idea of what commands (if any) were executed in that Terminal session.

If so, is there any way I could tell that this has happened.

I'm not sure what to tell you to look for, but you might launch the Console utility, open the '/var/log' entry in the column on the left, select 'secure.log', then look for activity while you were away.
If you're worried about remote access, I'd open the Sharing panel of System Preferences and turn everything off.

How To Use The Mac Terminal For Hacking Devices

Feb 15, 2010 12:53 PM

How To Use The Mac Teminal For Hacking