Terminal Cheat-Sheet

Table of some basic commands

Command	zsh	bash	PowerShell
Change Directory	cd	cd	cd
List Files	ls	ls	ls
Make Directory	mkdir	mkdir	mkdir
Copy	cp	cp	cp
Move / Rename	mv	mv	mv
Show First Lines of File	head	head	Get-Content -Head 10

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Some examples

Task	zsh / bash	PowerShell
Go to your home directory	cd ~	cd ~
Go to the course directory	cd ~/nr218	cd ~\nr218
List files in the current directory	ls	ls
List files in nr218	ls ~/nr218	ls ~\nr218
Make a new directory	mkdir ~/nr218/lab_1	mkdir ~\nr218\lab_1
Make several directories	mkdir ~/nr218/lab_2 ~/nr218/lab_3	mkdir ~\nr218\lab_2, ~\nr218\lab_3
Make nested directories	mkdir -p ~/nr218/project_1/data	mkdir ~\nr218\project_1\data
Copy a file into a directory	cp ~/nr218/notes.txt ~/nr218/lab_1/	cp ~\nr218\notes.txt ~\nr218\lab_1\
Move or rename a directory	mv ~/nr218/lab_1 ~/nr218/lab_01	mv ~\nr218\lab_1 ~\nr218\lab_01
Show the first 10 lines of a file	head ~/nr218/README.md	Get-Content ~\nr218\README.md -Head 10