Terminal Cheatsheet

terminal-cheatsheet.md

Lines starting with $ are terminal commands

View current directory

• $ pwd
• eg output: /Users/winnie06

List all files and folders in current directory

• $ ls
• $ ls -la (for listing all files including hidden files)

Change Directory

• Go up one directory level

• $ cd ..

• Change directory to home directory (/Users/winnie06)

• $ cd ~

• Change directory to specific path. eg no matter whichever directory you are currently in, in the terminal, if you run $ cd /Users/winnie06/Downloads/, you'll change the directory to Downloads

• $ cd /path/to/directory

Open directory in finder

• Open current directory in finder

• $ open .

• Open specified path in finder (similar to cd /path/to/directory)

• $ open /path/to/directory

Text editor Emacs

• Open specified file or create it if it doesn't exist, eg. try $ emacs blog.html and then $ ls
• $ emacs /path/to/file
• Once in emacs, save file by pressing Control + X and then Control + S
• Once in emacs, exit to terminal by pressing Control + X and then Control + C

Comprehensive terminal reference: https://github.com/0nn0/terminal-mac-cheatsheet