| typing this at the prompt | does this |
|---|---|
ctrl + r (on a Mac) | allows you to search your terminal for previous commands…just start typing |
tar -xvzf [fileName.tar.gz] | unzip a .tar file |
standard would be ls and ls -l, but lsd and lsd -l is way better 🙂 | list all files and folders in your working diretory with info on permissions |
standard would be du -a -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr, but dust is way better 🙂 | lists all files and folders in your working directory sorted by size |
standard would be du -sh *, but dust is way better 🙂 | simpler version of the command above. lists all files in a folder and shows their file size |
standard would be df -h, but duf is way better 🙂 | view free/used disk space by drive |
lsd -l | wc -l | counts ALL files in a directory |
lsd -l | grep -c 'sam’ | counts ONLY files in a directory that are of a certain type (in this example, .sam files) |
lsd -l -t | head -n1 | shows only the most recently modified file or directory in your current working directory |
ls -X | group files in directory by file type (extension) |
tree -d, but broot is way better 🙂 | lists all files and folders in your working directory as a tree structure |
lsblk | lists drives and their size (as well as used/free space on each) |
pressing up arrow | recalls previous command |
cd / | takes you to the root directory |
cd ~ | takes you to your home directory |
cd .. | takes you up one level in your file directory |
cd ../.. | takes you up two levels in your file directory |
chmod u+x [fileName] | edits permissions on file |
chown [yourUserName] [fileName] | makes you the owner of a file |
chgrp [yourUserName] [fileName] | assigns you as the group for the file |
rm -rf [directoryName] | removes a folder and all of its contents |
wget [URLtoFile] | downloads a file from a website |
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES | show all hidden files in the finder (Mac only) |
pip freeze | lists all the python packages (and their versions) installed on the server |
sudo nano /etc/profile | opens up the system profile where new program paths can be added to the system PATH |
export PATH="/path/to/your/software/:$PATH" | add a new piece of software to the system PATH so it is executable from anywhere |
alias something="something else" | add lines like this to your ~/.bash_profile to create a keyboard shortcut, in this case typing 'something' actually does 'something else' |
progress or watch progress | displays the progress of file manipulation jobs (e.g. from cp, mv, etc) |
whereis | locates the binary, source, and manual page files for a command. |
micro [FILENAME] | Micro is a text editor built right into the terminal. You can call ‘micro’ and any text file by name to open and edit that file. Micro is particularly nice since it has some of the ease of. use you are probably arelady familiar with for stand-alone text editors. User-specific customization of micro’s settings can be done by modifying the config file that lives at /home/[USERNAME]/.config/micro/settings.json |