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01. Console Commands👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

Bash/Terminal Commands

Instructions:

From the terminal/console and using only the command line, create the following:
- A new folder with the name of first_day_stuff.
- A new HTML file with the name of first-day.html.
- Open the current folder containing the new HTML file.

BONUS

Create multiple directories/folders with the names one_folder and second_folder in one command.
Create multiple files with the names one.html and two.html in one command in the first_day_stuff directory.

✅ Solutions

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The solution breaks down the steps to meet the goal.

🔑 We use cd to navigate to Desktop:

Mac 🍎:

cd Desktop

PC 🖼️:

To get into Desktop you might see onedrive and that is where desktop folder might be located.

cd Onedrive
cd Desktop

cd Onedrive/Desktop

cd Desktop

🔑 We use the mkdir command to create a new directory inside Desktop named first_day_stuff:
```
mkdir first_day_stuff
```
🔑 We use cd to navigate inside the first_day_stuff directory that we just created:
```
cd first_day_stuff`
```
🔑 We use touch to create a new file named index.html inside first_day_stuff:
```
touch index.html
```
🔑 To test that the user’s goal has been met, we use cd .. to navigate back to the Desktop and ls to list the contents of Desktop:
```
cd ..

ls
```

The first_day_stuff directory is listed among the contents of the Desktop.
To test that a file has been created in the folder, we use cd to navigate into thefirst_day_stuff directory:
```
cd first_day_stuff
```
Then we use ls to list the contents of the directory:
```
ls
```
We see that an index.html file is located inside the first-day directory.
The solution addresses all the conditions of the acceptance criteria and clearly meets the user’s goal. Good work!

Resources

These are the basic commands for navigating directories in a terminal or Git Bash window.

Moving in Directories

Change directory:

cd [path/to/desired/directory]

Change to home directory:

cd ~

Move to one directory up:

cd ..

View folders and files in the directory:

ls

Show the current directory:

pwd

Autocomplete a file name in the current directory:

Press tab key once to autocomplete once you have typed a unique portion of a file name.

File Manipulations

Make new file:

touch [name of file to create]

Make new folder:

mkdir [name of directory to create]

Delete file:

rm [name of file to remove]

Delete folder:

rm -r [name of directory to remove]

Copying file:

cp [filename1] [filename2]

Move/rename file:

mv [filename1] [filename2]

Mac Only

Open file or folder (Mac only):

open [name of file]

Open all files and folder in current directory (Mac only):

open .

PC Only

Open file or folder (PC only):

explorer [name of file]

Open all files and folder in current directory (PC only):

explorer .

Cheatsheet

Open Terminal/Console. Then walk and explain to students what each of the following commands does:

cd (changes directory)

cd ~ (changes to home directory)

cd .. (moves up one directory)

ls (lists files in folder)

pwd (shows current directory)

mkdir <FOLDERNAME> (creates new directory)

touch <FILENAME> (creates a file)

rm <FILENAME> (deletes file)

rm -r <FOLDERNAME> (deletes a folder, note the -r)

open . (opens the current folder—MAC SPECIFIC)

open <FILENAME> (opens a specific file—MAC SPECIFIC)

explorer <FILENAME> (opens the specific file—BASH SPECIFIC)

explorer . (opens the current folder—BASH SPECIFIC)

Notes: Tabbing Pressing the tab key after typing "cd fol" will autocomplete to "cd foldername," assuming foldername is unique. (Folder/Filename Autocomplete: Show students what happens when there are unique and multiple options based on what they typed.)