Five (5) ways to open the Terminal on Mac

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MacOS is a good operating system.  But sometimes, you need to get “under the hood” in order to do something outside of the GUI Environment.

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Terminal is the only way to get under the hood. Fortunately, Apple has 5 different ways to open and use the feature.

1. A Finder Folder – Right click on any folder, select Services, New Terminal at Folder.
2. Spotlight Search – Press [Command] + [Spacebar] and type: terminal
3. The Dock – Adding the Terminal icon to your Dock is another fast way to get into it
4. The Finder – Open Finder > Utilities > Terminal
5. Launchpad – Click on the Launchpad icon, find the Terminal icon, double click on it.

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