![]() Assuming Sara Lee's middle name is "Ann", and she worked on a PDP-11 in 1981, her login would then be "sal".)Īpple also has a concept of a "User Name" as opposed to the "Short User Name". Anything more than 3 letters, for anything really, is an abomination for these folks. The only valid user login has 3 letters for the first letters of the user's first, middle, and last name. None of these values would be acceptable for them. (Old-school Unix greybeards have big hangups on this. ![]() If "Sara Lee" created an account on a Mac and used the default value, her login would be "saralee". Again, Apple needs to just slightly different so Apple defaults this value to your first and last name concatenated together. Typically a person's login is the first letter of their first name and then their last name. Apple calls this a "short user name", because Apple always has to "think different". It is more common to reference a "user name", also called a "login name" or sometimes just a "login". Your user ID is probably 501.īut people rarely use User IDs. Normal user accounts on a Mac start at UID 501. In Linux/Unix, there exists a UID (User ID) that identifies each user. I don't know what you mean about "basic names" and "nick names". The Terminal can always show more than the Finder. If you see it in the Finder, then you should see it in the Terminal. These people aren't doing you any favours. And yet, virtually every "how to" post you'll find on the internet starts with "1. The Developer forums here on the Apple Support Community are just full of people who can't do basic command-line operations due to having their system corrupted by homebrew. Unfortunately, it looks like your environment has already been corrupted by the "homebrew" app. If you encounter something that works differently in Linux than macOS, then you should probably put that off until later. ![]() Anything you need is going to be identical. Any such tutorial focused on macOS, Linux, or Unix will work. I'm sure there are thousands, I just can't recommend any one in particular. The easiest way to do that in the Finder is to type shift command. ![]() You can use "ls -al" to view all files, including hidden ones, in the Terminal. Because it starts with a period, it is hidden. The zshrc config file is actually named ".zshrc". Your home directory is probably the default value "/Users/BillyBoyS41" or whatever your "short user name" is in your login account. I have to learn more about Terminal's 'zshrc config file' and the 'Home' directory. ![]()
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