EECS 280 Tutorials
macOS command line tools
macOS comes with a Terminal and can run UNIX command-line tools directly.
When you see $
in this tutorial, you should type into your shell the command that comes after the $
.
Open terminal
Open the Terminal application which comes with macOS.
Install compiler
Install a compiler.
$ xcode-select --install
Notice that this compiler is really Apple LLVM pretending to be g++
. Your version might be different.
$ g++ --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.38)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin
Homebrew package manager
Install the Homebrew package manager.
$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Apple Silicon users (“M1”, “M2”, etc.) only - Homebrew installs to a non-standard location, /opt/homebrew/
. You’ll need to run the following to add Homebrew to your path:
$ echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.zprofile
Close your terminal and reopen your terminal.
Check your install. Your version might be different.
$ brew --version
Homebrew 3.6.14
Install CLI tools
Use the Homebrew package manager to install a few command line programs.
$ brew install wget git tree
Use CLI tools
Now would be a great time to take a look at our CLI Tutorial.
Pro-tips
CLI open file
Opens a file or directory with the default application, like a double click. See the open
command in the CLI tutorial.
Acknowledgments
Original document written by Andrew DeOrio awdeorio@umich.edu.
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