The Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys in Terminal don’t work as you would expect if you’ve come from the land of PCs. To get them them working “properly” again open up Terminal and go to the Preferences dialog. Click on the Settings button at the top and then the Keyboard tab. Change the action for each of the keys as show in the following table.

Key	Old Action	New Action
home	scroll to start of buffer	\033[1~
end	scroll to end of buffer	\033[4~
page up	scroll to next page in buffer	\033[5~
page down	scroll to previous page in buffer	\033[6~

 

On Linux you can type “ls –color” to get a directory listing in glorious colour, however the same command doesn’t work quite as well on OS X. The solution is to add the following lines to ~/.profile and then just use “ls” as normal:

export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=ExFxCxDxBxegedabagacad