Terminal Commands Every Developer Must Know

Every developer should know at least some commands to be used on the terminal and there exists quite a lot of them. In this article, however, I would like to describe only those that you really MUST know.

One of the basic knowledge that web developers are learning at the beginning of their career is the ability to type commands in the terminal in order to move between folders, create files, and many other useful things.

Knowing just those commands will make you a better developer and help you in your everyday coding life.

Let’s take a look at the most known and the most useful of them.

Go to the directory - cd

First and the most used command would be “cd”. It allows you to access any folder from the current directory.

cd documents

// goes to the documents folder

If you would like to come back to the previous folder, you should type something like that:

cd ../

// goes back from the documents folder

List of the files - ls

Imagine that the first command that you have run doesn’t find the folder or the file that you are searching for. In order to visualize the list of the current folder’s content, you should use…