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Top Terminal Commands

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afconvert – Used to convert audio files.

afinfo – Can display information of an audio file.

afplay – Can play an audio file.

alias – Used to create alias commands. For example, the clear command can be aliased to CLS.

awk – Used to find and replace text within a file or files.

B

basename – Can be used to convert a full pathname to a single filename

bash – A different type of Shell, the Bourne-Again SHell.

bg – Send a process to the background.

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