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Terminal Cheatsheet for Mac ( basics )

Onno Schwanen edited this page on Nov 19 2015 · 17 revisions

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Terminal Cheatsheet for Mac
( basics )
Ctrl + A Go to the beginning of the line you are currently typing on
Terminal Cheatsheet for Mac ( 基
Ctrl + E Go to the end of the line you are currently typing on 本)

Terminal Cheatsheet para Mac

Ctrl + L Clears the Screen
(básico)

Command + K Clears the Screen

Clone this wiki locally
Clears the line before the cursor position. If you are at the end of the line,
Ctrl + U
clears the entire line. https://github.com/0nn0/ter

Clone in Desktop
Ctrl + H Same as backspace

Ctrl + R Lets you search through previously used commands

Ctrl + C Kill whatever you are running

Ctrl + D Exit the current shell

Puts whatever you are running into a suspended background process. fg

Ctrl + Z
restores it.

Ctrl + W Delete the word before the cursor

Ctrl + K Clear the line after the cursor

Ctrl + T Swap the last two characters before the cursor

Ctrl + F Move cursor one character forward

Ctrl + B Move cursor one character backward

Esc + F Move cursor one word forward

Esc + B Move cursor one word backward

Esc + T Swap the last two words before the cursor

Tab Auto-complete files and folder names

CORE COMMANDS

cd Home directory 
cd [folder] Change directory 
cd ~ Home directory, e.g. ‘cd ~/folder/’

cd / Root of drive

ls Short listing

ls -l Long listing

ls -a Listing incl. hidden files

ls -lh Long listing with Human readable file sizes

ls -R Entire content of folder recursively

sudo Run command with the security privileges of the superuser (Super User
[command] DO)

open [file] Opens a file ( as if you double clicked it )

top Displays active processes. Press q to quit

nano [file] Opens the Terminal its editor

pico [file] Opens the Terminal its editor

q Exit

clear Clear screen

COMMAND HISTORY

history n Shows the stuff typed – add a number to limit the last n items

ctrl-r Interactively search through previously typed commands

![value] Execute the last command typed that starts with ‘value’

!! Execute the last command typed

FILE MANAGEMENT

touch [file] Create new file

pwd Full path to working directory

.. Parent/enclosing directory, e.g.

‘ls -l ..’ = Long listing of parent directory

‘cd ../../’ = Move 2 levels up

. Current folder

cat Concatenate to screen

rm [file] Remove a file, e.g. rm [file] [file]

rm -i [file] Remove with confirmation

rm -r [dir] Remove a directory and contents

rm -f [file] Force removal without confirmation

 rm -i [file] Will display prompt before

cp [file] [newfile] Copy file to file

cp [file] [dir] Copy file to directory

mv [file] [new filename] Move/Rename, e.g. mv -v [file] [dir]

DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT

mkdir [dir] Create new directory

mkdir -p [dir]/[dir] Create nested directories

rmdir [dir] Remove directory ( only operates on empty directories )

rm -R [dir] Remove directory and contents

PIPES – Allows to combine multiple commands that generate

output

more Output content delivered in screensize chunks

> [file] Push output to file, keep in mind it will get overwritten

>> [file] Append output to existing file

< Tell command to read content from a file

HELP

[command] -h Offers help

[command] —help Offers help

[command] help Offers help

reset Resets the terminal display

man [command] Show the help for ‘command’

whatis [command] Gives a one-line description of ‘command’

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