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I learned about iTerm from some comments on photomatt’s weblog. I looked at this application about a year ago and didn’t see any reason to use it over terminal.app (besides tabbed terminals).

But it’s better now. I recently took a contract job that required setting up 8 servers (FreeBSD). This is something that would take me a few hours normally. With iTerm’s option of “Send input to all tab’s” I can now open sessions to each server and every command I type on one tab is replicated to all the other tabs. Very cool.

If they could just work out some other bugs(?), like not being able to turn off the toolbar (the option under view doesn’t work, but you can click on the oblong button upper right hand corner), and for some reason my font and color settings aren’t saved.

Overall, I think i’ll continue to use iTerm for when I need to replicate commands to many servers at once; probably won’t be replacing my every-day terminal though.