• Dinky pocketbooks: the command-line reference edition

  I have fulfilled my intention from to create a dinky pocket book as a reference for useful terminal commands (see below). I'll be printing a set of these out for my colleagues to find on their desks next week.

  The printable pdf can be found here, but if you are running safari — or a recent gecko build as now it also uses -moz-transform — you can print directly from the browser.

  The HTML for the reference booklet together with some minor updates to the original booklet css can be found on github.

  I rarely use the terminal so these are commands that I will find useful as a reference and some of these I always end up having to look up. It is not designed to be an exhaustive list but if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them!

  

  Navigate the file tree

  changing directory to dirname

  cd dirname

  move up a directory in the tree—dont forget you can drag a folder in from the finder to get a path to that directory.

  cd ..

  go back to the last directory I was in

  cd -

  where am I? (present working directory)

  pwd

  list what's in this directory

  ls

  now give me more information in the listing

  ls -lah

  ssh to server

  ssh user@domain.com

  Find & open

  list all files recursively in subdomains

  find .

  find all files with '.css' in the name

  find . | grep .css

  find the string 'prose' in the contents of all the files in this directory

  grep -r "prose" .

  open a file as if you had double clicked it in the finder (mac only)

  open filename

  open the current directory in the finder

  open .

  make a directory called dirname

  mkdir dirname

  create a file called filename if it doesnt exist or update last modified date if it does

  touch filename

  Move, remove & copy

  move or rename a file or directory

  mv oldname newname

  remove a file

  rm filename

  remove a directory and all its contents. BE VERY CAREFUL! you could easily delete everything!

  rm -rf dirname

  copy a file

  cp oldfilename newfilename

  copy a directory and everything in it

  cp -r olddirname newdirname

  securely copy a file to / on a remote server — you can also copy a directory using scp -r

  scp file user@domain.com:

  Subversion

  check out a repository to the current directory

  svn co http://domain.com/svn/ .

  update local directory from repository

  svn up

  are there new or modified files?

  svn status

  add new files to the repository

  svn add filename

  remove a file from subversion

  svn remove filename

  mark a previously conflicted file as resolved

  svn resolved filename

  who changed what line number of this file

  svn blame filename

  commit all changes in this directory

  svn commit -m "commit msg"

  Subversion & download

  is this directory checked out from svn? and where?

  svn info

  show everything that has changed

  svn diff

  show what has changed in one file

  svn diff filename

  open text editor in order to specify which files to ignore from svn

  svn propedit svn:ignore .

  download a file to the current directory

  wget URL

  show the contents of a file in the terminal

  curl URL

  Help & information

  run any command as root

  sudo your-command-here

  get help for any command, eg svn

  svn --help

  how long has this computer been on?

  uptime

  what is the size of the current directory and all the contents

  du -h

  cancel the command you were currently typing

  ctrl + c

  go to the beginning of the line in the terminal

  ctrl + a

  go to the end of the line in the terminal

  ctrl + e

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