Terminal

terminal

Use Terminal on your Mac to interact with macOS using the command line.

Detected by com.apple.Terminal | macOS |support.apple.com

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Terminal in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/terminal.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "terminal"

name = "Terminal"

homepage = "https://support.apple.com/guide/terminal/welcome/mac"

description = "Use Terminal on your Mac to interact with macOS using the command line."

# Terminal ships no command-line tool of its own — the shell it hosts is not

# Terminal — so `detect` carries the bundle identifier. Verified on this

# machine: `defaults domains` lists com.apple.Terminal, and

# /System/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app is that identifier's app.

detect = ["com.apple.Terminal"]

platforms = ["macos"]

# The description is trimmed from Apple's own summary of the Terminal User

# Guide ("Learn how to use Terminal on your Mac to interact with macOS using

# the command line").

# Terminal keeps its settings in an ordinary preferences domain rather than in

# a file of its own. Read back on this machine, ~/Library/Preferences/

# com.apple.Terminal.plist is where the user's setup lives: "Window Settings"

# is the dictionary of profiles — each with its font, colours, cursor, window

# size and shell — while "Default Window Settings" and "Man Page Window

# Settings" name which of them Terminal opens for a new window and for a man

# page. Terminal's Settings ▸ Profiles ▸ Export writes one profile out as a

# .terminal file, which is the same property list for a single profile.

# [preferences] is ~/Library/Preferences; the entry is macOS-only, so there is

# no other platform for that root to stand for.

paths = ["[preferences]/com.apple.Terminal.plist"]

exclude = []

# Nothing in the domain is a credential: Terminal authenticates to nothing and

# holds no keys — anything an ssh session needs belongs to apps/ssh.toml.

secret = []

# No machine_lines: profiles, colours, fonts and the startup shell are exactly

# what a user wants on their next Mac. The same domain also carries per-machine

# leftovers — the saved window frames, "CommandHistory" from the Open Command

# panel, "LastTerminalStartTime" — but a property list has no matcher in this

# schema, since `format` covers toml, yaml and json only.

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/terminal. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.