Take the tour ×   I recently installed tomcat on my OS X 10.5
box and while I was playing around with the ~/profile I
accidentally put in a bad alias and saved it. Long story short
every time I open up the Terminal app it tries to launch the
alias and hangs up and is unresponsive with keyboard commands.
I tried deleting my Home folder -> Library -> Preferences ->
com.apple.terminal.plist  This did not work.... However when I
create another user on the system the Terminal works fine.  It's
prob some hidden file in the Home directory I assume? But I have
had no such luck with rigging my Mac to view hidden files.
Please help!  share|improve this question superuser.com or
apple.stackexchange.com would be better places to ask this. – 
user135 Oct 27 '10 at 18:11 If you have root enabled on the
machine (From what I recall, OS X ships with root in some sort
of disabled state, but you can enable it), you should be able to
log in as that and fix your files. – 
FrustratedWithFormsDesigner Oct 27 '10 at 18:14 add comme