Does the Command Line Intimidate You?Are you one of the millions of Mac users who are afraid of using the Terminal?Are you a professional or student and you know you need to brush up your command line skills?Do you just lack the background knowledge to get started?Did you know that 95% of macOScommand line skills also work on Linux?It’s true. So learning the macOS command line can accelerate your studies or career, giving you radically new skills you never imagined. You dont need any previous experience. If youre comfortable using macOS desktop and basic tools such as Finder, or even if youre new to Mac but familiar with other systems such as Linux or Windows, then youre ready to take this course. You’ll start with the basics, and by the end you’ll be able to perform some advanced tasks that would impress most professionals. What Youll Learn, in DetailYoull start with the very basics of what the Terminal actually is, how it relates to the rest of macOS, and the huge benefits of learning the command line. From there youll see how to launch Terminal, how to understand the user interface, and how to run your first commands such as ls. Then youll be introduced to the file system and youll learn how to navigate around using the command line using cd. You’ll be introduced to paths and learn the difference between relative and absolute pathsYoull learn to work with files, creating, copying, moving and deleting files and directories. Youll learn how to view and edit files directly in Terminal using cat and nano. You’ll also learn a little about vi and vim, and why they’re not the best for a beginner. Youll learn the basics of pattern matching so you can work with wildcards and search tools such as grep, which will make your workflow much more efficient. Finally youll learn about I/O streams and redirection, and very powerful tools such as pipes and command line filters so you can sort and reorganise files and other data.
