Terminal commands
Commands that work in the Linux and macOS terminal (bash and zsh). Click a command to copy it.
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Moving around
- Show the current folder
- List everything here, with details and hidden files
- Go into a folder
- Go up one folder
- Go to your home folder
- Go back to the previous folder
Files and folders
- Make folders, including the ones in between
- Create an empty file
- Copy a file
- Copy a folder
- Rename or move
- Delete a file (there is no trash)
- Delete a folder and everything in it
- Make a shortcut (symbolic link)
Viewing files
- Print a file
- Read a long file page by page (q to quit)
- First 20 lines
- Last 20 lines
- Follow a file as it grows
- Count lines
Searching
- Find text in files here, with line numbers
- Find text, ignoring upper/lower case
- Find files by name
- Find files bigger than 100 MB
- Where a command lives
- Search your earlier commands
Permissions
- Allow a file to run
- Owner can edit, everyone can read
- Owner can edit, everyone can open
- Run a command as administrator
- Change who owns a file
Processes and system
- Live list of running programs (q to quit)
- Find a running program
- Stop a program by its process ID
- Force-stop a program
- Free disk space
- Size of each file and folder here
- What is using port 3000
Network
- Check a site answers (Ctrl+C to stop)
- Show the response headers of a page
- Download a file
- Log in to another computer
- Copy a file to another computer
Archives
- Pack and compress a folder
- Unpack a .tar.gz
- Make a zip file
- Unpack a zip file
Combining commands
- Save the output to a file (overwrites)
- Add the output to the end of a file
- Send one command’s output into another
- Run the second only if the first worked
- Stop the running command
- Search earlier commands as you type
- Clear the screen (or Ctrl+L)
rm deletes for good. Double-check the path before pressing Enter.