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will always run with administrative privileges. (Note that these are the steps

for Windows 10. You can do the same thing in Windows 7/8/8.1, but the

screens vary a little.)

Accessing the Command-Line Interface in macOS

and Linux

The command line in macOS and the command line in Linux function

virtually identically. This isn’t too surprising given that both macOS and

Linux are based on UNIX. The terminal emulator in macOS has a specific

name, Terminal. The many distros of Linux use different emulators, such as

Konsole Terminal and GNOME Terminal. To make things easy, we’ll use the

command-line interface in Ubuntu Linux, conveniently also Terminal.

To open Terminal in macOS, either launch the Terminal app from the

Utilities folder (located in the Applications folder) or activate Spotlight

(COMMAND-SPACEBAR), type terminal, and press enter to bring up the macOS

Terminal (see Figure 15-3).

Figure 15-3 macOS Terminal

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