Command Line Crash Course: Beginner's Guide to Terminal Commands

New to the command line and need an absolute beginner’s crash course?

This video is an absolute beginner’s guide to BASH / ZSH terminal commands. I demonstrate the commands in the Terminal application on macOS but you can easily apply them to the Linux terminal app. By the end of this video you should feel comfortable browsing folders and files on your computer and viewing manual pages for commands via the command line. You’ll use the terminal to create new folders and files, copy files and directories, rename and move files and directories, and delete files and directories. You’ll also become comfortable with various other commands such as clear and cat.

Commands:

01:50 - Command Prompt
03:00 - pwd - print working directory
03:35 - ls - list storage
05:42 - clear - clear the terminal screen
05:59 - man - display online manual pages
07:55 - cd - change directory
08:46 - mkdir - make directory
09:11 - touch - create new file
09:28 - cat - concatenate and print files
09:49 - nano - free text editor
10:40 - cp - copy file or directory
12:09 - mv - rename / move file or directory
13:09 - rm - remove file or directory

Thanks for watching! I hope you found it useful and/or entertaining. Tag me in the comments section with questions or feedback.

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Just to reiterate, this is a beginner's video for the command line. Here's a list of the topics and commands I cover:
01:50 - Command Prompt
03:00 - pwd - print working directory
03:35 - ls - list storage
05:42 - clear - clear the terminal screen
05:59 - man - display online manual pages
07:55 - cd - change directory
08:46 - mkdir - make directory
09:11 - touch - create new file
09:28 - cat - concatenate and print files
09:49 - nano - free text editor
10:40 - cp - copy file or directory
12:09 - mv - rename / move file or directory
13:09 - rm - remove file or directory