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Console Commands That You Should Know How To Use

Get more productive by knowing your way around the terminal

Daan
Level Up Coding
Published in
8 min readApr 8, 2020

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Every modern-day developer tries to constantly improve and be more productive. Knowing your way around the terminal is one way to get things done faster. Instead of using your mouse to click around in a GUI, you could just get the exact same job done in the terminal — but way faster. However, this requires you to have some knowledge about the console commands that you can use.

This article is perfect for you if you’re trying to become a command-line Ninja but don’t have that much experience under your belt using the command line, yet. Or if you just want to deepen your knowledge and understanding about the wide array of commands that are available in the terminal.

Let’s jump straight into the list of console commands that hopefully will make your life as a developer a little bit easier and give a boost to your productivity.

1. pwd

The pwd command makes it able for you to get some context about the current working directory. pwd is short for print working directory. The output of this command will be the full system path of the current directory.

Although thepwd command doesn’t have as many options as the most commands (since it’s…

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