Intro to Terminal Interactions

Purpose - To learn basic command line skills to later be leveraged when using other command line tools.

Glossary of Terms

Shell - a program used to interpret input from, and send output to, the terminal
Terminal - a text-based interface used to interact with the shell
File - a particular instance of allocated memory used for recording data on a storage device.
File System - a relational structure (hierarchical relations) of files and directories.
File Explorer - a graphical representation of a file system.
File Path - the uniquely named location for a particular file.
Directory - a special type of file which has reference to other files, and possibly other directories
Folder - a graphical representation of a directory
Home Directory - the directory containing files for a given user on a multiuser operating system
Current Working Directory - the directory presently referenced in the terminal, thus referenced by the shell.
Parent Directory - a directory containing another directory; the directory “above” another directory
Child Directory - a directory contained by another directory; the directory “below” another directory
Dev Directory - a child directory of the home directory that is used to store application-development-projects and local-code-bases
Root Directory - the parent directory of a particular file system or subsystem
Command - a key word that is executed in the terminal, thus executed by the shell, to access and interact with a particularly program or service.
Alias - a symbol used to refer to a particular filepath.

Instructions

If participating on Windows, ensure you have installed gitbash

Section A - Navigating the Terminal

Click here to read more about navigating the terminal.

Section B - Creating from Terminal

Click here to read more about creating from the terminal.