{"id":1613,"date":"2012-10-18T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2012-10-18T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T22:16:00","slug":"5-essential-terminal-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/5-essential-terminal-shortcuts\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Essential Terminal Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terminal screen<\/p><\/div>\n

The first time you see the Terminal screen, it’s very intimidating. “What am I supposed to do here How do I navigate? What can I type?<\/em>” Over time, [cci]cd[\/cci]-ing and [cci]ls[\/cci]-ing will become second nature. Using a Command Line Interface (Terminal) is simply more efficient than leaving the comfortable home position to drag the mouse a few inches.<\/p>\n

In OS X, Terminal wraps the Bash (Unix shell) application. I’ve learned some essential Bash shortcuts that will help you save time and be more efficient.<\/p>\n

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  1. [Tab]
    \nCommand-line completion is amazing. Bash will automatically fill in partially typed commands. If you have a file named “profile-page.html” and hit [Tab] while typing out the first few letters, the rest of the file name will likely be auto completed for you.<\/li>\n
  2. [cci]ls -a[\/cci]
    \nWhile you probably know about typing [cci]ls[\/cci] in a directory to show all files, typing [cci]ls -a[\/cci] will let Bash show you all files (including the hidden ones) that Finder won’t show you by default.<\/li>\n
  3. [cci]touch [\/cci][file_name]
    \nThe touch command takes in a file_name argument that is the file name created on the spot.<\/li>\n
  4. [Cmd+T]
    \nCreate tabs with [Cmd+T] Do you remember the first time you tried Firefox several years ago? Tabs are your friends.<\/li>\n
  5. [cci]open [\/cci] [target]
    \nThe open command followed by the folder or file name will let you open up files in their default application.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Working out of the Terminal is amazing. If you’re interested in more power tips, I’d recommend reading about alias<\/a> and subl symlink<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The first time you see the Terminal screen, it’s very intimidating. “What am I supposed to do here How do I navigate? What can I type?” Over time, [cci]cd[\/cci]-ing and [cci]ls[\/cci]-ing will become second nature. Using a Command Line Interface (Terminal) is simply more efficient than leaving the comfortable home position to drag the mouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rexfeng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}