Command Line Tips

• Press ‘tab’ button to autofill

• Depending on shell, hitting tab once (zsh) or twice (bash) will display options if multiple exist

• Press ‘up’ arrow to recall last command

• ‘Control + A’ to move to beginning of line

• ‘Control + E’ to move to end of line

• ‘Control + C’ to end (i.e. kill) command

• ‘Control + Z’ to exit manual

• Avoid using spaces when naming files or folders

• Beware curly (i.e. smart) quotes ‘, be sure to use straight quotes '. Curly quotes usually come from text editors like Microsoft Word and don’t work when coding. To ensure you are using straight quotes, write code in a plain-text editor like TextEdit (Mac) or Notepad (Windows) and turn off spelling and grammar checking.