Terminal app in recovery mode has fewer commands available to it because it is running off of the recovery partition.

Terminal app will launch within Recovery Mode, ready for your commands, whether it’s resetting a password, clearing out disk space, disabling or re-enabling SIP in Mac OS, or any of the other myriad functions available via the command line.

Choose “Terminal” to launch Terminal app within Recovery Mode.

At the “MacOS Utilities” screen, pull down the “Utilities” menu from the top of the screen.

Choose the language as usual (if applicable).Boot into Mac OS Recovery Mode as usual by holding down the Command and R keys during system start.Accessing the Command Line in Recovery Mode on a Mac Nonetheless, accessing Terminal from Recovery boot mode is easy. But Recovery Mode does not have the same applications directory access, nor does it have Spotlight or Launchpad. For some quick background, on a normally booted Mac, the Terminal application is found within the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, and it can be accessed directly through the folder hierarchy or by using Spotlight to search for and launch Terminal app.

Mac console mode