Can I Delete Specific Apps Through Terminal while booted to recovery or an os installer? I think I have a failed installation issue from trying to install Catalina. Apparently there wasn’t enough space, and when it restarted I wasn’t able to log into my MacBook. Every time I do, the progress bar goes halfway, and then the MacBook shuts down.

I’ve tried to use command + S boot up, but it just shows the login screen as usual. It doesn’t show the terminal, except when I shut it back down or restart (for a brief second).

This means I have to use recovery mode’s terminal. I need to use the terminal in recovery mode to delete my Adobe apps so I can free up space to reinstall Catalina from recovery mode. 
The problem is, when I navigate to cd /Applications, there’s nothing but Safari.app and Utilities. How do I find my Adobe apps?!



I ran ls in cd /Volumes, and it says:

Macintosh HD
Macintosh HD - Data
macOS Base System
Using the Terminal app. Look in /Volumes to see if the name of your normal desktop hard drive is there.

If so cd to /Volumes/&lt; Insert your home volume name >/Applications

That will take you to the applications folder of your desktop.  Where you can remove unneeded items.

If not present, you will need to mount it.  If using a standard disk with a recovery volume you can issue the following command (with root permission)

mkdir /Volumes/mydrive
mount /dev/disk1s5 /Volumes/mydrive
cd /Volumes/mydrive


an "ls" should show you the Applications directory where you can remove the needed items.