In this post, I will about Windows Command Line (CMD) and Mac OS Terminal Navigation Commands. Knowledge of CMD/Terminal commands may be needed for using command line interfaces (CLI) of applications where Graphical User Interface is missing, or when CLI provides a faster/easier way to perform a task.

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Your default shell should be set up for tab-completion, which makes typing these ghastly escape sequences easier (i.e., helps to make all those backslashes).
Tab-completion is really useful anywhere in the shell though... all it means is that when you've typed part of a word and then push 'tab', the shell will try to complete the rest of the word in an intelligent way. For example, let's say you have a directory with the files:
aFile
anotherFile with Spaces in THe NAME
doc1
doc2
Let's say you want to use the 'less' command to view the contents of aFile. You can type...
less aFile
less aF[tab]
In the 2nd case, after typing those two unique letters and tabbing, the rest of the file name will be completed.
If you want to do something with that 2nd file with the scary name, it's easy to just type:
less an[tab]
And it will fill in all the junk necessary for you.
For the 3rd and 4th files, since their names are so similar you really just need to type out the full names...
I hope this is news to someone ;)

Just realized that I forgot to mention how this works with directory navigation. Here's an example:
to do this properly:
cd /Users/username/temp/directory with spaces
you could type this:
cd /U[tab]/use[tab]/temp/dir[tab]
The tab positions are completely arbitrary. As long as what you've typed is unique the shell will know what to fill in. The win here really comes with the last directory name.
You have to complete each directory name in the path. It will complete the name of a directory in the path you've specified so far. (ie. cd /U[tab] will complete to cd /Users)

I have always just put the * symbol in place of spaces and that has worked fine for me. That way You can use directories with spaces in them.

I have no idea why I tried this, but when I ran into the space problem, I just surrounded the title in question with double quotes, as in CD /Users/unohoo/'My files' and it worked fine repeatedly.

Sometimes, even the simplest tasks can be forgotten if not practiced and repeated. In this short tutorial, I am going to show you some basic command line commands in Microsoft Windows, and their equivalent commands in Apple Mac OS Terminal. This is by no means a complete reference to the available commands, just a short list of some common commands available to you on your operating system. In this post, I will about Windows Command Line (CMD) and Mac OS Terminal Navigation Commands.

Knowledge of CMD/Terminal commands may be needed for using command line interfaces (CLI) of applications where Graphical User Interface is missing, or when CLI provides a faster/easier way to perform a task. Let’s see some of the commands

The CMD/Terminal window

To open the CMD window in Microsoft Windows you may follow several ways, one of them being choosing Run option from the start menu, typing “cmd” in run window, and clicking “enter”. This will open the CMD window in Microsoft Windows

CMD window

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Here you will see the version of the Operating System, and the path to the home folder. The white sign in the picture points your current location in the disk. Home folder is the usual starting point when you open CMD window.

In Mac OS you will usually find the Terminal in Other programs folder. When you open the terminal, you will see the name of the current folder. If you want to know the full path to the current folder, you can type pwd and see the full path.

List files and folders

If you want to list files and folders in that directory use:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
dir	ls

Here you see the list of directories in my home folder

Listing files in a directory with dir command in Windows CMD

Move to directory

If you want to change your current directory to another directory, use:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
cd “path to the folder”	cd “path to the folder”

When you execute the command by pressing “enter” in your keyboard, if the path is correct, you will see that you current folder will change to the new path.

Get back to parent directory

If you want to go one directory up in the directory tree, execute:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
cd..	cd ..

and you will see your current directory will change to the parent directory. Please note that in windows two dots are connected to cd, and in MacOS there is a space between cd and dots.

Get to the root

Wherever you are in the directory tree, you can move to the root directory by executing:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
cd	cd /

This will get you to the disk root of the directory tree.

Create a directory

Creating a new directory is done using

WINDOWS	MAC OS
mkdir MyFolder	mkdir MyFolder

This will create directory MyFolder in your current directory.

Remove a directory

Removing a directory first requires the directory to be emptied from contents, and then be removed. Removal commands are:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
rmdir MyFolder	rm -r MyFolder

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Rename a directory

To rename a directory execute:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
rmdir	mv oldName newName

Rename a file

To rename a file execute:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
ren oldFileName newFileName	mv oldFileName newFileName

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Delete a file

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To delete a file exeute:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
del filename	rm -Rf filename

Delete command does not ask for confirmation, so please be careful.

Check the Path

Some programs need to be added to the PATH in order to be accessible through command line interface. If you want to check your current path, you can execute the following command:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
echo %path%	echo “$PATH”

This will print current path variable and you can check if required programs are added to the path.
I hope this helps.