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6/21/22 Notes

• Text editor

The terminal

• File explorer
• find files
• move and copy

Cmd

• ls cmd for list
• cd cmd for change directory
• Mkdir cmd for make directory (folder)
• touch cmd for create a file
• cd .. cmd for go back
• cp file.text ../folder/ cmd for copy \
• mv cmd for moving
• pwd cmd for present working directory
• code cmd for

Text editor

Basic Editors

• ones that come with pc
• note pad
• text edit mac
• no syntax, no themes, very basic

Third party editors

• visual studio code
• atom
• notepad++
• syntax highlighting, code completion, emmet shorthand

IDE (Integrated Development Enviornment)

• An IDE is a text editor, a file manager, a compiler, and a debugger all in one software package
• its a suite of tools
• similar to outlook

Command line, Terminal

Process

• present with a prompt
• command is entered
• command line arguments (space must be between command and command line arguments) (-)

• first command line argument is also an option. Options used to modify behaviour of command (-

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• Output from running command. other commands just perform their task and dont display
• prompt will appear again after command has run and terminal is ready for another command

Paths

• path is a means to get to a particular file or directory on the system

• Absolute Path Absolute paths specify a location (file or directory) in relation to the root directory. You can identify them easily as they always begin with a forward slash ( / )

• Relative Path Relative paths specify a location (file or directory) in relation to where we currently are in the system. They will not begin with a slash.

• ls ~/Documents
• ls ./Documents
• ls ./Documents

files

• ls -a list contents of directory