Terminal Cheat Sheet

Here some of useful Terminal commands for Mac users.

Basic

pwd       #print working directory
ls        #list files in directory
clear     #clear the terminal screen of all previous commands 
cd        #change directory
~         #home directory (cd~ #this will change directory to home         directory)
..        #up one directory (cd .. #this will change directory to up one)
-         #previous working directory (use cd -)
help      #get help
-h        #get help
--help    #get help
man       #manual
cat       #output the contents of a file
mkdir     #create new directory
open      #open a file with the associated program, a directory with Finder, or a URL with the default web browser
ps        #list all running processes
kill      #terminate existing process
rmd       #permanently delete file
rmdir     #remove directory 

Git

When working with Git following commands will be used frequently

git clone <url>                #Clone directory
git checkout -b <new-branch>   #Create new local branchgit push -u 
origin <new-branch>            #Sync local branch with remote
git checkout <branch>          #Checkout branch
git push origin <branch>       #Push branch to remote
git branch -d <branchname>     #Deletes local branch
git push origin :<branchname>  #Deletes remote branch 
git subtree push --prefix docs origin gh-pages  #Push docs as subtree to gh-pages

git branch -m <oldname> <newname>   #Rename branch
git branch -m <newname>             #Rename current branch
git branch -d <branchname>         #deletes local branch
git push origin :<branchname>      #deletes remote branch
git remote prune <branchname>      #update local/remote sync