How to Prevent & Disable Mac OS X From Sleeping From the Command Line Terminal Application

To prevent and disable Mac OS X from sleeping from the Command Line Terminal application, you can use the caffeinate command.

Here’s how to use caffeinate:

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. Run the following command to prevent the system from sleeping indefinitely:
   caffeinate

3. To prevent the system from sleeping for a specific duration, you can use the following command, where duration is specified in seconds:
   caffeinate -t duration


Note: To stop caffeinate, you can simply press CTRL + C in the Terminal.

Alternatively, you can use the pmset command to prevent the system from sleeping:

1. Open the Terminal application.
2. To prevent the system from sleeping indefinitely, run the following command:
   sudo pmset noidle

3. To prevent the system from sleeping for a specific duration, you can use the following command, where duration is specified in seconds:
   sudo pmset sleep duration


Note: To stop the pmset command, you can simply run sudo pmset sleep 0 in the Terminal.