terminal tips and talk about it in general

[Counterfit]

Counterfit, i think that link's broken. i'm interested in this 'wtf' now.

That's because it's not a link!

just install it, it's fun!

 

[howard]

hey,

back with another very simple question

how do you copy move and make new folders and files with the terminal?

 

[Doctor Q]

hey,

back with another very simple question

how do you copy move and make new folders and files with the terminal?

The commands you want to know about are "mv" to move or rename a file, "cp" to copy a file, and "mkdir" and "rmdir" to create and remove directories, aka folders. If you want to create an empty file, you can use the "touch" command, as in "touch myfile.txt". You could also use "echo >myfile.txt".

Look at the manual (man pages) for a given command with the "man" command, e.g., "man cp".

 

[jeremy.king]

http://www.ss64.com/osx/index.html has come in handy more than once for me.

 

[ingenious]

how do i use the "talk" command? is that like the net command in DOS? like i could send a text message to someone else using the terminal?

 

[GiantsFan]

how do i use the "talk" command? is that like the net command in DOS? like i could send a text message to someone else using the terminal?

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