setting permissions for user, group and others for given chmod +r README.md chmod +w README.md chmod +x README.md rm.

last 3 bits others chmod u=rwx, g=rx, o= README.md.

next 3 bits user permissions ( r=read, w=write, x=execute).

-pv create intermediate folders if they don’t exists (+verbose)Ĭhanging permission to files / folders ls -al -rw-r-r- 1 user staff 0B Nov 16 09:17 README.md.

Print head of a file head -n 20 README.mdĬreate new empty file touch notes.txt mkdirĬreate a new empty directory mkdir -pv /medium/article/images Print tail of a file tail -n 20 README.md Program to browse files supporting paging, searching … less notes.txt tail ĭetermine file type file server.bat DOS batch file text, ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators findįind all files (folders) in current directory with name matching pattern find.

change working directory to logged in user’s home cd.

change working directory using absolute cd.

List all files and folders in working directory (permissions, owner, group) -al cdĬhange working directory /home/Users/user/Download

we can print text, evaluation, variables, list of files.Write to standard output echo Hello World! Hello Worlds! echo $((2+2)) 4 echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin echo $? 0 echo * a.txt b.cmd c.class echo *.txt a.txt echo 'Hi There' > sample.txt cat sample.txt Hi There echo 'Hello There' | wc 1 1 55 Print a location of a program which java pwd Printing manual page for given command man ls -h If you have any good idea what could be added to this cheat sheet please leave a comment bellow. This was intended to be used purely for me but feel free to use it as it’s own :). I am sharing this article with you with hope that maybe someone will find it useful.

These are command that I use quite often but not so often that I can remember them all. That is a main reason why I decided to write my own terminal cheat sheet. There is a lot of articles out there about unix/linux terminal commands and tricks but I prefer to have everything on one place and be able to customize it over time.

Mac terminal cheat sheet