clear When you need a fresh Terminal window.

Opens the current folder or file in finder or it's default application.

open Same as 'double-clicking' a file or folder in finder.

Back out to the parent directory of the current directory.

cd This by itself will navigate all the way out to your Home Directory.

This is helpful when trying to find hidden files like.

ls -a include hidden files in the list of directories and files.ls List the directories and files inside the current directory.pwd Figure out which directory you are currently in by 'Printing the Working Directory'.Open up terminal, cmd + space 'terminal'.Check out this Terminal Cheat Sheet for Mac for a more complete list of commands. Using Terminal, we often refer to folders as directories.

There are just a few basic commands needed to navigate around in Terminal.

The Terminal is much like the finder, but less pretty. You can click the video link in each section for a video walkthrough or watch the video playlist now. This Guide introduces using Git with Terminal. Git stores your files like a stream of snapshots, allowing you and other collaborators to make changes to projects and keep everything in sync. Git is an essential tool in the developers toolkit.

Commit changes git for mac terminal