Basics Terminal Command Every Web Developer Should Know.

• Home Directory ~

• See all files in the current Directory ls

• See in which Directory you are currently now pwd

• Clear Console clear

Navigation Commands

• Change Directory cd

• Traverse back to Directory cd ..

Root Vs Home Directory

• Root Directory /

• Home Directory ~

Absolute vs Relative Path

• Absolute

• Relative Path

Create a new Directory

• mkdir dir

Flags

Flags are the additional command embedded with the commands to show more in the directory (Hidden folders/files)

• ls -l

• ls -a

Create a New file

• touch filename

Delete Files/Folders

• Delete files rm - filename

Delete Folders

• Empty Folder

• Folder with files

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Comments

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

The touch command isn't actually for creating new files. It's for updating the access and modification times of the specified file or files. The fact that it creates the file if it doesn't exist is merely a convenient side effect.

[Gaurav Singh]

Yes. You're right that the touch command didn't intend to create the new files, If files already exist then we can access & modification the file otherwise it'll create a new file

[Chris Howard]

It's not a command, per se, but the up/down arrow functionality is something everyone should know. Toggles through previously entered commands. This is very handy if you're doing the same tasks several times over (avoids extra typing) and is helpful in reviewing what you've done in the event that it didn't work as intended.

[commdao]

Bro, you just changed my life

[Lena]

And then you become addicted to it like me and press 11 times the up arrow to find back a ls :D

[Gabriel]

Agreed with @kwnaidoo, also it is good to understand the concepts of Redirections when using UNIX commands, that would be a good follow-up post of more advanced topics as well as using pipes like ps aux | grep python.

[Lotfi Jebali]

This article is helpful but in my opinion it could've been much helpful if you mentioned Git commands

[Gaurav Singh]

I'll post another article related to Git commands

[Scott Reno]

This is a good introduction

[Anthony Fung]

In addition to Mac, these will also work in Linux. A subset also works with Windows command line interfaces too (Cmd/PowerShell).