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Terminal Reference

Summary

Below you will find a collection of tutorials on the basics of using the terminal.

Before You Start

These tutorials assume no prior knowledge of the subject.

Exercises

You can download exercises to go along with these tutorials on our Terminal exercises GitHub repository. You don’t have to know how to use GitHub to use them. Just click the green Code button in the corner and click the Download ZIP option. Then unzip the folder and open it in your text editor.

Terminal Introduction

Lessons

Why should I use the terminal? Setup – Terminal Understanding the prompt – Terminal

Terminal Basic Commands

Lessons

Print working directory – Terminal Show files and folders in a directory – Terminal Change directories – Terminal Move up a directory – Terminal Move into your user directory – Terminal Create a file – Terminal Create a folder – Terminal View file contents – Terminal Clear screen – Terminal

Terminal Tips

Lessons

Reuse previous commands in your terminal Complete the name of a directory or file – Terminal Learn more about a command – Terminal Move through text in your terminal using these keyboard shortcuts

Terminal Advanced Commands

Lessons

Move file or folder – Terminal Rename file or folder – Terminal Copy files or folders to new location – Terminal Delete a file – Terminal Delete a directory – Terminal

Next Steps

After taking this course, you can take our Git course.