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Questions about the Terminal application or its terminal emulation should use this tag. Use **command-line** for questions about shells or command-line programs that do not specifically involve Terminal.

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How can I access the LaTeX commands from the terminal?

I just installed MacTeX onto Yosemite and it installed everything in usr/local/texlive However if I am in Terminal and try to compile a LaTeX file with pdflatex foo.tex, it cannot find the LaTeX tools … How can I get the LaTeX tools to work from the terminal without specifying the entire path? …
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Is it possible to get the full suite of unix options for the command line tools on OS X?

I follow Unix Tool Tip on Twitter and it is interesting that many of the tips that are posted are not available on OS X. For example: cp - u will only copy files that don't exist, or are newer …
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