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Tag: Terminal Tips

  • Terminal Tips: Play Tetris in Terminal

    Bored out of your mind on an airplane with no internet and a company laptop with no games installed? How about playing a crappy low resolution version of Tetris!

    Here’s how…

    Step 1: Open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities)

    Step 2: Type emacs, hit Enter. After it loads, press the Esc key, then X on your keyboard.

    Step 3: Enter tetris (lower-case) and hit Enter.

    Bingo! Your very own copy of Tetris running in Terminal, use the arrows keys to control/rotate the blocks.

  • Terminal Tips: Part 6

    Continuing the series of posts I started last week, here are a few more Terminal tips.

    [16] uptime
    Shows the current time, how long your computer has been running, as well as the average load.

    [17] top
    Much like Activity Monitor, the top command displays a list of all running processes on your system.

    [18] emacs
    Allows you to run the old unix program emacs.