Handy terminal commands

Basic Terminal Commands

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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