TERMINAL Converter

Extract text from Terminal settings files (TERMINAL)


Drop or upload your .TERMINAL file
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How to extract text from your TERMINAL file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TERMINAL file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert TERMINAL to another file type

To convert TERMINAL settings files to another format, you need macOS Terminal or other Settings software.

Convert a file to TERMINAL

To convert other file formats to the "Configuration Profile" file type, you need software like macOS Terminal or a similar tool.


About TERMINAL files

A .terminal file is a configuration profile used exclusively by the macOS Terminal application to store user preferences. It dictates the visual theme, including window size, background opacity, font family, text colors, and specific startup shell behaviors. Users typically export these files to share themes or back up their command-line environment. These files are generated and managed directly through the settings interface in macOS Terminal. The major disadvantage of the .terminal format is its rigid ecosystem lock-in. It is structurally an Apple Property List (plist), which can be saved in either a plain XML format or a compiled binary format. If you switch to Windows, Linux, or even an alternative macOS emulator like iTerm2, you cannot directly import this file. Direct conversion to formats like .itermcolors or Alacritty YAML requires specialized scripts. Users generally need to convert these files to standard XML, TXT, or JSON formats simply to extract the RGB or Hex color codes and recreate the theme elsewhere. Because this is a proprietary system settings file, standard online image or document converters cannot process it. We can inspect the file and show the raw text or internal XML content, allowing you to bypass the binary encoding and extract your configuration data seamlessly.

Convert.Guru analyzes your TERMINAL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted TXT and BASH files.


FAQ

If you want to convert TERMINAL file to BASH, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV or PROPERTIES, you can use macOS Terminal or similar software from the "Terminal Profile Settings" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to TERMINAL, try macOS Terminal or another comparable tool in the "Terminal Profile Settings" category.



The TERMINAL Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TERMINAL converter.