I would like to send some text to a port on my machine using telnet in the Mac OS X Terminal. I start telnet using: telnet localhost 8080 Then I type some text. How to send text with telnet in Terminal? Ask Question. Opening file from text wrangler to terminal. Learn how to open a file for editing in Sublime Text from the Mac OSX command line. I wrote in terminal “nvram -c” because I wanted to fix the fan velocity of my mac mini 3.1 (early 2009). Now the problem is the light in front of the mac mini does´t work and also the fan works from the beginning.

You can use either nano, vi or emacs editing program to create file on terminal level. If you're using x windows system you'll need to tell your system not to use the program in the GUI; but anyways, I'll use emacs as an example. From the bash; type: emacs filename.txt (press enter) - it will create an empty file with the filename specified 'filename.txt'. It will save 'filename.txt' from which ever directory type in 'emacs filename.txt' command. Keep in mind in all UNIX system VI comes with it; emacs doesn't, you'll need to install emacs. Nano on the other hand is more popular; just in case if that doesn't respond it means when you 'nano filename.ext' and nothing happens you'll need to install it.

Once you issue vi filename.txt most likely you'll end up creating a new file. You should look up vi, emacs or nano how to use on google before you get started. How to write a file, editing it, using its tools to search and replace text is different in those editing programs. I like emacs out of all the choices but you'll find developers that are obsessed with or favor vi and nano.