MacOS Tips and Tricks

The information here is surely well-known to macOS users, but might be useful if you are just a beginner.

.NET Core and/or .NET 5.0+ installation

See Install .NET on macOS.

If you use the installer, the instructions from Microsoft are missing the steps needed to setup the .NET search path. Use the following commands:

export DOTNET_ROOT=/usr/local/share/dotnet

export PATH=$PATH:$DOTNET_ROOT

Downloading files in Terminal

Use command curl -O <URL>.

Unpacking TGZ files in Terminal

Use command tar -xvzf <filename>.

Copy&paste and drag&drop in Terminal

Right-click in the terminal gives gives a menu with contextual commands, including Copy and Paste.

You can select text with mouse, and drag it to input prompt location.

Simply selecting a text with a mouse automatically copies it to the clipboard.

Keyboard shortcut for Paste is Shift+Command+V. If you are running macOS in a VM on Windows, use Shift+Windows+V instead.

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