Navigating the Terminal

Part 1 - Opening The Terminal

• To open the terminal in OSX
  • hold Command and press Space to open the spotlight search.
  • in the search bar, enter terminal
• To open the git-bash terminal in Windows OS
  • press the Windows key to open windows search.
  • in the search bar, enter git bash.

Part 2 - Displaying your Username

• Upon opening the terminal, verify what your username is.
  • execute whoami in the terminal.
  • The name of the account that is currently signed in should be displayed in the terminal’s standard output.
• In the examples below, the name of the user-account is hunte

Part 3 - Home Directory

• To navigate to the home directory execute cd ~ in the terminal
  • cd is a command used to change directories
  • ~ is an alias recognized by the shell to reference the home directory
• Verify that you are in your home directory by executing pwd to print working directory.
  • The file path pointing to a directory with your username should be displayed in the terminal’s standard output.

Part 4 - Listing Files in the Current Directory

• To list all of the files in the current directory, execute ls

Part 5 - Opening the File Explorer

• To get a graphical representation of the file system, open the file explorer.
  • execute explorer . from the Windows git-bash terminal
  • execute open . from the OSX terminal

Part 6 - Creating an Application-Development directory

• To create a new directory, named dev, execute mkdir dev from the home-directory.
  • mkdir is a command used to create a new directory
  • dev is the name of the directory to be created
• Verify that newly created directory is visible in the terminal, by executing ls.
  • The name of the directory, dev, should be displayed in the standard output.
• Verify that newly created directory is visible in the project explorer, by executing explorer . or open . respectively
  • The directory should be displayed as a folder in the project explorer

Part 7 - Change Directory to the dev directory

• To change the current working directory to dev, execute cd dev from the home directory.
• Verify that the command has executed properly by executing pwd to display the current working directory.
  • The name of the current working directory, ~/dev, should be displayed in the standard output.
• Verify that this directory is empty by executing ls
  • The standard output should not display anything