Handy terminal commands

Basic Terminal Commands

Navigation

• pwd shows which folder you are currently in

• cd change directory(folder)

  • cd ~ goes to the home folder i.e /home/shane on mac /Users/shane

• ls list the contents of the current folder

Creating directories and files

• mkdir wordpress will make a directory called wordpress in your current directory
• rmdir wordpress remove a directory
• touch nameOfTheFile.txt create a file
• rm nameOfTheFile.txt delete a file

DNS

A record CNAME

SSL

CDN

ssh

ssh root@<domain-or-ip-address>

MySQL

SFTP (FileZilla)

Wordpress install