pocket wikiTerminal commands

navigate the file tree

changing directory to dirname cd dirname

move up a directory in the tree cd .. dont forget you can drag a folder in from the finder to get a path to that directory

go back to the last directory I was in cd -

where am I? (present working directory) pwd

list what's in this directory ls

now give me more information in the listing ls -lah

ssh to server ssh user@domain.com

find & open

list all files recursively in subdomains find .

find all files with '.css' in the name find . | grep .css

find the string 'prose' in the contents of all the files in this directory grep -r "prose" .

open a file as if you had double clicked it in the finder (mac only) open filename

open the current directory in the finder open .

make a directory called dirname mkdir dirname

create a file called filename if it doesnt exist or update last modified date if it does touch filename

move, remove & copy

move or rename a file or directory mv oldname newname

remove a file rm filename

remove a directory and all its contents. BE VERY CAREFUL! you could easily delete everything! rm -rf dirname

copy a file cp oldfilename newfilename

copy a directory and everything in it cp -r olddirname newdirname

securely copy a file to / on a remote server scp file user@domain.com: you can also copy a directory using scp -r

subversion

check out a repository to the current directory svn co URL .

update local directory from repository svn up

are there new or modified files? svn status

add new files to the repository svn add filename

remove a file from subversion svn remove filename

mark a previously conflicted file as resolved svn resolved filename

who changed what line number of this file svn blame filename

commit all changes in this directory svn commit -m "commit msg"

subversion & download

is this directory checked out from svn? and where? svn info

show everything that has changed svn diff

show what has changed in one file svn diff filename

open text editor in order to specify which files to ignore from svn svn propedit svn:ignore .

download a file to the current directory wget URL

show the contents of a file in the terminal curl URL

help & information

run any command as root sudo your-command-here

get help for any command, eg svn svn --help

how long has this computer been on? uptime

what is the size of the current directory and all the contents du -h

cancel the command you were currently typing ctrl + c

go to the beginning of the line in the terminal ctrl + a

go to the end of the line in the terminal ctrl + e