See other available actions If you use the workflow outlined in Open the Command Menu, the Command Menu opens with a > character prepended to the Command Menu text box. Or, click Customize And Control DevTools and then select Run Command. You’ll see there’s also handy shortcuts for New Terminal Window, and New Remote Connection as well.Īnd by the way, this trick exists in both modern and much older versions of Mac OS X, so if you’re running on a considerably older Mac you’ll be able to use this too. Press Control + Shift + P or Command + Shift + P (Mac).

The Terminal app must be actively running to have these Dock menu options available. To run commands with superuser privileges, use the sudo command. I personally like to use this trick with htop, but there are no shortage of commands available to you both by default and through Homebrew. This is because the shutdown command can be run only by the root user or by an administrator user with root user privileges. If you want the shell to persist after the command has finished running, check the box for ‘Run command in shell’, otherwise by default, only the command runs, and a shell will not be available when it has finished running. Enter the command to run in the ‘New Command’ window.Select “New Command” in the popup menu options.Locate the Terminal icon in the Dock on Mac, then right-click (or control click) on the Terminal Dock icon.You must have the Terminal application open and running, available in the Mac Dock for this trick to work.

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