cli prompts

cd

change directory

pwd

print working director

ls

lists the files in current directory

ls -a

lists all files including hidden files in current directory

ls subdir/

lists content within a subdirectory

cd ..

moves one directory up

clear

clears terminal workspace

less file.txt

used to print the text of a file one screen at a time

cat file.txt

displays contents onto terminal window

grep “word” file.txt

used to find a word in a file (case-sensitive)

grep -i “word” file.txt

used to find a word in a file (non-case sensitive)

grep “word” *.txt

searches for word in all files in working directory

mkdir

creates a new directory

rm file.txt

removes a file

rm -r directory_name

removes the entire directory

mv old_name.txt. new_name.txt

renames a file

mv file.txt thisdir

moves the file to a directory

cp file.txt copy.txt

copies one file to the next

cp -r og_dir copy_dir

recursively copies a directory into the destination directory

cp -r og_dir* copy_dir

recursively copies the contents of a directory into the destination directory

find .

recursively prints all files and directories in the current directory

find . -name “*.txt”

finds a specific type of file in a directory

find / -name “file.txt”

finds the specific file starting from the root directory

exit

closes session

rm -i —recursive dir_name

deleting non-empty directories safely

..

parent directory

.

refers to self directory

absolute path

starts with / to reference root directory

cd

shortcut to change to home directory