Heya! Ive got a cheat sheet for terminal usage. peep it below!
1. Command line
A command line, or terminal, is a text based interface to the system. You can open it up in your computer and write to your heart's content. But what do we write in the terminal? -Well, when we first open our new friend up, it will display a prompt that looks like this: 'Usersname :' -It will probably display your computer processor and your usersname. That's good! It shows you it's ready to work.
How do we navigate from file to file like in our GUI? Using these different terms can give you an idea of where you are and where you wanna go: -pwd (print working driectory) Shows you where you are on the command line. -ls (List) What is in our veiw right now? What are we looking at that we can further direct to? -cd (change directory) In case we wanna switch to another directory or back to the home directory.
-Paths can either be absolute or relative which means that when we regard files or directories we can either be in one of these two paths absolute paths have a location relative to the root directory, while relative paths have a relation to where we have landed in our system!
Files are organizers. they are used to help specify what type of directory or file a file is. here are some different types of files you might see on your computer:
- '.EXE'
- 'TXT'
- 'PNG'
Using Spaces In lines helps us to urther specify which file we are looking for!
Happy Coding!