Use Shell To Open The Terminal Faster In Mac OS X [How To]

Last week we told you about fading dock icons but today I came across an interesting guide about how to speed up opening the terminal with the help of a shell. Credits for the guide go again to osxdaily so here is what they’ve discovered.

Each time that you try running the Terminal, Mac OS X will read various logs from the system so that it can now the details of the last login session. As a result, you can open the terminal faster in Mac OS X by using a shell instead of the default “/usr/bin/login” parameter. Alternatively, this can be achieved by deleting the system log files but we’ll try to cover that a bit later.

Here is what you have to do in order to change the shell for the Terminal in Mac OS X:

-      Go to the Preferences menu in The Terminal drop down menu and then to the Startup tab

-      Here you should find the ‘Shells open with” option and select the box next to the “Command” option. Please note that in Mac OS X, this value is set by default to /bin/bash but it can be changed to a different one.

To see for yourself if this trick really works or not, you just have to open a new Terminal instance. Following the above steps will actually bypass the reading of the log files by the Terminal each time it runs.

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