Jul 25
How to make Terminal start faster
This always annoys me. Mac OS X’s Terminal’s prompt not loading promptly.
Sometimes it is something to do with Apple system logs. You can clear them through this:
sudo rm -f /private/var/log/asl/*
It works for me and I’m a happy user again, now the prompt in Terminal starts quickly when I start a new Terminal tab. Hope it helps.
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