4 Simple Steps To Create An Awesome Terminal Experience On Your Mac
If you’re a command-line user and don’t use zsh or iTerm2, you’ve been missing out on a lot
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6 min readNov 1, 2019
With the upgrade to MacOS Catalina, Apple wants you to switch to zsh as the default command-line shell. If you are like me, you probably stuck with bash for all these years.
If Apple deems it good enough as a default for MacOS, it must at least be worth checking out. So I did, and in this article, I will show you what you have been missing out on!
Step 1. iTerm2, a better terminal client
The default Terminal app on MacOS does a decent job. But there are better options out there. I have been using iTerm2 and I highly recommend it. It has a bunch of cool features like:
- Autocomplete
- Split panes
- Search
- Paste history
- Instant replay
- Highly configurable
- Growl support
- .. and much more
Your first step to a better terminal experience on your Mac is installing a better terminal. So head over to the iTerm2 website and download and install the latest version.
