Terminal is one of the most useful and yet most intimidating features of OS X. If you know what you're doing, you can move mountains. If not, it's easy to screw up your system.

In this session, we'll take you from a Terminal novice to a pro as we guide you from the basics of shell scripts on through to advanced techniques. We'll even break out of the Terminal a little and apply the lessons we've learned from writing shell scripts to create an awesome Alfred extension.