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Posted by harsha praneeth
harsha praneeth
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what is terminal

i copied the data from home-brew and i do not no were to paste the data. The video said to paste it terminal. Please let me no i am using mac

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Dave McFarland
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Dave McFarland
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Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Terminal is an application that let's you send command line instructions to Mac's unix-like operating system.

You can find terminal in Applications --> Utilities --> Terminal on the Mac.

Adam Sackfield
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Adam Sackfield
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Adam Sackfield
Adam Sackfield
Courses Plus Student 19,663 Points

A terminal is mac version of the command prompt on windows. image