Basic Mac development setup

All of my development has been on a windows machine to this point having only casually used my Mac for 10+ years.

Even with all that casual experience, I have been tripping up a lot. Here are the key things that got me going developing on a Mac.

Keyboard basics

Using a windows keyboard for now.

Action	Keys
Command button	Windows key
Home	command + left arrow
End	command + right arrow
move cursor one word at a time	Alt + Arrow
show applications/desktops	Control+Up
Screenshot entire desktop	Shift + Cmd + 3
Screenshot portion of screen	Shift + Cmd + 4 (+drag cross hair & make a box)
Copy	command + C
Cut	command + X
Paste	command + V

VS Code won't let you use the terminal until you do this:

OS Settings>Security and privacy>Privacy tab, Click checkbox "documents folder" under Vscode icon.

Command	Description
pwd	present working directory
ls	show directory contents
ls -a	show all files and directories including hidden ones.
ls -l	show ownership and permissions
find . -name 'mystring*'	find file name containing a string.
which <app name>	figure out if and where an application is installed. ex: Is brew installed? % which brew

"The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux)"
https://brew.sh/

Command	Description
brew list	list all applications installed with homebrew
brew install	install an application

Command	Description
env	See all environment variables
echo $PATH	See just the path variable

Add application temporarily to PATH variable, so it works right away (ex: postgres):

export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/12/bin"

Add application permanently to PATH variable, so it works after restarting the terminal and stays:

export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/12/bin"

Hope some find this useful. Plenty more to add I'm sure.