• Knowing keyboard shortcuts and terminalogy can be extremely helpful. It can greatly speed up the development process. Knowing the lingo is helpful too. If you sound like a developer, you probably are a developer :-).

• Operating System (OS)
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Command Line Interface (CLI) = Terminal = Shell
• Folder = directory

• pwd - print working directory
• cd .. - go to parent directory (aka up)
• cd [folder] - go into folder
• ~ - your home folder
• ls - list files and subfolders in current folder
• touch [filename] - create a new file
• mkdir [directory name] - make a new directory
• rm [filename] - remove (delete) a file
• rm -r [directory name] - remove (recursively) a folder, all files, subfolder, subfiles, etc. Will prompt if trying to remove special files.
• mv [filename] [foldername] - move a file to a different folder
• mv [filename] [new filename] - rename a file
• atom [filename] - open the atom editor
• atom . - Opens atom editor at place of path
• ctrl + a - go to the beginning of Line
• ctrl + e - go to the end of Line
• ctrl + k - delete to end of line
• ctrl + u - delete to front of line
• ctrl + w - cut to previous word
• ctrl + y - paste terminal buffer
• npm list -g --depth 0 - To see which packages are installed globally

cmd + LArrow : Go to beginning of a line

cmd + RArrow : Go to end of a line

cmd + / : Toggle line/selection comment

cmd + f : Search within file

cmd + shift + f : Search within project

ctrl + k : Delete everything after the cursor on the same line

ctrl + shift + k : Delete current line

cmd + ctrl + UArrow/DArrow : Move current line up/down

cmd + d : Select current word (repeat to select multiples of the same word)

cmd + click : Place multiple cursors

cmd + shift + d : Duplicate a line

cmd + t : Search for file by name within project

ctrl + g : Go to line number

cmd + \ : Toggle tree-view sidebar

cmd + enter : Add newline after current line

cmd + shift + enter : Add newline above current line

cmd + g : Find next

cmd + ] : Indent selection

cmd + [ : Un-indent selection

cmd + shift + p : Find and run available commands

ctrl + 0 : Switch between tree view and text editor

• git help - For help and documentation
• which git - Check for git.
• git init - Initialize empty git repo
• git clone <url> - Clone and existing Repository
• git status - check for changes in your working directory
• git diff - Changes to tracked files
• git add . - Add all current chnages to next commit
• git add -p <file> - Add some changes in to next commit.
• git commit -a - Commit all local changes in tracked files.
• git commit -m - make a commit with a messge.
• git log - Show all commits
• git log -p <file> - show changes over time for specific file
• git branch -av - List all existing branches
• git checkout <branch> - Switch HEAD branch
• git branch <new-branch> - Create a new branch based on your current HEAD
• git branch -d <branch> - delete a local branch
• git remote -v - List all currently configured remotes.
• git remote add <shortname> <url> - Add a new remote repository.
• git pull <remote> <branch> - Download changes and directly merge / integrate into HEAD.
• git push <remote> <branch> - Publish local changes on remote.
• git merge <branch> - Merge into current HEAD.
• git reset --hard HEAD - Discard all local changes in your working directory.
• git checkout HEAD <file> - Discard local changes in specific file.
• git revert <commit> - Revert a commit.
• git reset --hard <commit> - Reset your HEAD pointer to a previous commit ... and discard all changes since then.

• Use tab to autocomplete. for example, if the current folder has subfolders titled games, photos and photography, typing pho and pressing the tab key will result in displaying photo and photography. If we then type the letter g to get photog,and press the tab key - the command will be autocomplete to photography.

• You can also use the up and down keys to step through the commands typed before.

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