Command Line 101: a Basic Guide to Using the Terminal
Get started using your terminal and get one step closer to being an experienced developer.
All of the code for this tutorial can be found here.
Developers use the command line to navigate through file and perform operations. Once you get used to it, it is definitely the most efficient way to access files and perform operations. Also, when you start virtual machines on the cloud, it becomes the only way of easily communicating with your instance. So, without further due, let’s learn about the terminal and basic commands to get started!
In this article, we’ll cover what is the command line, which commands we can use and we’ll go through a simple tutorial to put those commands in practice.
First, what is the command line?
It is a plain and simple text interface for your computer. It takes commands which are then passed to the OS to run.
And which commands can we use?
The usual commands are given in the table below.
