Episode 2: The Terminal

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Opening the Terminal

If you are on a Mac, you can find the terminal in the Applications/Utilities folder:

On a Mac, our favorite shortcut to open the Terminal.app is to press Command+Space and type terminal into the Spotlight search:

Terminal Commands

Here is a summary of the terminal commands we covered in this episode:

• ls: shows the contents of the current directory
• mkdir NewDirectory: creates a new directory called NewDirectory
• cd NewDirectory: navigates into a directory called NewDirectory
• open .: opens the current directory in the macOS Finder app
• clear: clears the terminal
• touch some_file.py: creates a new, empty file called some_file.py
• mv some_file.py main.py: renames the some_file.py file to main.py
• rm main.py: removes (deletes) the file main.py
• rm -r SomeDirectory: removes a folder called SomeDirectory

Links

• iTerm2: https://iterm2.com
• Wiliam's open source work: https://github.com/williamFalcon
• Sebastian's open source work: https://github.com/rasbt

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