
Command Line Fundamentals: A Quick Reminder
Reminder of Some Command Lines The terminal is the application that you run that allows you to give commands to your computer. The prompt is the text that you see right before the command you write in your terminal. You can customize it in your current session in zsh like this: The tilde ~ means your home directory. A command line is the text you write in your terminal after the prompt to give your computer a command. GUI stands for Graphical User Interface. You can interact with it using your inputs (mouse, keyboard, etc.). Navigation cd Every time you run: cd It moves you to your home directory. If you want to move to a directory inside your home directory: cd your_directory If you have another directory inside it, you can go deeper: cd child_directory Now let’s say you want to go back, but not to home, just one level: cd .. If you want to go back two levels: cd ../.. If you want to see the current directory you are in (the path), you run: pwd Creating Directories and Files mkdir cre
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