All paths start from /
Windows C: drive is thus /c/
Your user home folder is /c/users/myname
~ works as a shortcut for user home folder, so:
~/projects equals /c/users/myname/projects
. is the current directory.
.. is the parent directory.
pwd
Output:
/c/users/myname
ls (list files)
ls -l (list files in long form)
ls -a (list all including hidden files)
cd <foldername>
cd .. (go up one folder)
cd project (go into project folder)
cat file.txt prints content of the file.txt to screen
echo "Hello world" > file.txt
Writes the string "Hello World" to a file.txt, overwriting current content or creating the file if needed.
echo "More stuff" >> file.txt appends "More stuff" to the end of the file on a new line.
touch file.txt
Create an empty file. If file.txt exists, only update its timestamp.