So I do that for Banner, I'll actually get some detail here. And any time you want to find more Mac commands *, you can use the manual command, MAN, man, and type the name of the command. And I can see exactly what it is I've got. Let me select it all, and command minus 2, shrink the font size. And I can open that, and I can see it's in there. Now, if I were to open up a new finder window, I can see that, here in my documents folder, I've got banner.txt. Like that, with the greater than symbol, and then the name of the file. But, I'm going to put it in a new file called banner.txt. Now let me do banner, and do that hello world again. So, you see, I'm in the documents folder now. So let me do PWD, which is the, uh, gives me the path where I'm at. Now I can actually put that in a file, make it easier to see. And actually spells out Hello World in very large text. And the result is, is I get this string of characters like that. Let's put some quotes around it, and put "Hello World.", period. You type banner, space, and then some text. For instance, here's a simple one called banner. So you run Terminal, and then you can type a command. To run the Terminal program, you can find that in the applications utilities folder, or in launch pad and line. Now there are a lot of strange and unusual things hidden on your Mac that are only available through the Terminal. On today's episode, let's look at some fun things you can do with the terminal. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 613: Fun With the Terminal at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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