Commonly Used, but Oft-Forgotten CLI Commands

common-commands.md

Commonly Used, but Oft-Forgotten CLI Commands

MacOS

• zip -e my_zip_file.zip your_original_file.docx

SSH

• ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"
• eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
• ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa use this to add existing key to your terminal session

Git

• Undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git Guide: Choose Your Own Adventure

• Updating a forked repo from the original repo

  • Configure a remote for fork: https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-remote-for-a-fork/
  • Syncing a fork: https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/

• git init

• git add

• git commit -m "commit message"

• git push

• git reset --soft HEAD^ or HEAD~1 remove last unpushed commit, but keep the files

• git reset --hard HEAD^ destory last unpushed commit and its contents

• git update-ref -d HEAD Remove first commit to the repo

• git clean -df && git checkout -- . clean cwd and all uncommitted/untracked files