Hi Dave, To get quickly to Terminal, you can press cmd-shift-u when in the Finder, which will take you to the Utilities folder, then press t e r, as in the first three letters of the app named Terminal, then press cmd-o to open it. Alternatively, you could place a shortcut to the Terminal on your Dock. Just use the first two steps, then once Terminal is selected, instead of pressing cmd-o press cmd-ctrl-shift-t to place the selected item on the Dock.
To answer your second question, as the author notes in their instructions, normally, this is a permanent change unless you add some extra text to the commands as outlined in the article. You could create a shell script by typing the commands into a plain text document, then saving it with a .sh extension. Save this .sh document onto your Desktop, then simply VO-space on the .sh document to run it. This would automatically run that command, or group of commands, in Terminal essentially having a shortcut to do the task for you. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Sep 15, 2021, at 9:46 AM, Dave Carlson <dgcarlson0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Tim, > Excellent information. Since I’m very new to any terminal stuff, may I ask a > couple more questions? > > 1. How do I get to the terminal command line quickly? > > 2. If I do use the pseudo bless command string to designate my other volume > to be the next boot, will that be a permanent change, or will everything go > back to normal after a subsequent reboot? > > Dave Carlson > Oregonian, Engineer, Musician, Farfar, Woodworker, and Pioneer > > On Sep 15, 2021, at 7:12 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Using Terminal is probably your best bet. See this link for more details: > > http://www.robertopasini.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/556-osx-setting-the-startup-disk-using-terminal > > <http://www.robertopasini.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/556-osx-setting-the-startup-disk-using-terminal> > > If you need any other assistance creating the shell script, let us know. > > Later… > > > Tim Kilburn > Jamf Certified Tech > Apple Professional Learning Specialist > Apple Teacher > (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > >> On Sep 14, 2021, at 10:20 PM, Dave Carlson <dgcarlson0...@gmail.com >> <mailto:dgcarlson0...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I use the Startup Disk Dialog often to switch back and forth between Mojave >> and Catalina. Is there a way to put a shortcut or alias on my desktop to >> quickly access this dialog? Or even better a rapid way to switch between the >> OS options? 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