A friend of mine (who used to use Windows) has recently purchased a Mac and asked me how to use the command line on macOS. I thought I'd share here what I sent him:
99% of commands are identical to Linux ones, which is great as there are so many great material about it available on the Internet.
Terminal.app from macOS is ok but far from ideal. I (and 90% of software engineers I know) use iTerm2. It's light (3mb), free, open-source, has a better UI than the native one and lots of useful features! Best terminal I've ever used.
Finally, if you speak Portuguese, I've recorded a screencast explaining how to create scripts on both macOS and Linux (similar to BAT files on Windows):
