Command Guide¶

Terminal commands¶

dir (To view the contents of a directory)

ls To view the files as a list

cd (It is frequently useful to know in which directory you are currently working)

cd Desktop (To move between directories, use the cd command with the name of a directory example go to desktop is "cd Desktop")

mkdir (To create a new directory)

 cd - = back to previous folder

 CTRL - U" = remove text from prompt

 CTRL + A = goes to start of line

 CTRL + E = goes to end of line

List formats:

convert -list format

Convert JPG to PNG:

convert input.jpg output.png

Convert all JPGs to PNGs:

mogrify -format png *.jpg

Convert SVG to PNG at 1000 DPI:

convert -density 1000 -units PixelsPerInch input.svg output.png

Compress JPG to quality 50% width 1000:

convert input.jpg -quality 50% -resize 1000 output.jpg

Compress all JPGs to quality 50% width 1000:

mogrify -quality 50% -resize 1000 *.jpg

cd paula-alonsopalomar

git status (to tell you the files that have been modified, shows up a list)

git add *file name* (to add files to the staging area, intermediate area, not yet a commit)

git commit -m  "Add index file of my doc website" > Enter (to commit with a message describing what you are adding)

git log (after commiting to see what happened, extra info)

git rm (in case you need to remove a tracked file)

git reset commit number (if you want to go back to a commit, copy the commit identifier)

git push (in order to push it to the gitlab repository)

You should see an output message = your local changes are uploaded in your repository.

Open GitLab > you will see the message you put for the update > click there or in the commit section > you see all the changes that have been done.

git init: create to play with commands

git clone: how you pull a file from the server locally

git pull (for downloading the last copy of the repository of the server)

git merge (to have a working copy)

git config –global color.ui true (Set color in command line)

cat .gitconfig (Shows all the settings in the config file that just have been set)

CTRL + U to look at the coding of a website, source of the website

COMMAND + F (Mac) to search for a specific word in a website

To show hidden files in Mac you have to press in your keyboard: COMMAND + SHIFT + PERIOD

Last update: May 28, 2021