/lab-intro-to-command-line

Introductory Command Line Lab

It's time for you to practice navigating around the command line.

Instructions

Downloading this Lab

  1. On this page, click the green "Code" button up above. Then, click "Download ZIP". This should download the .zip file to your Downloads/ folder.

  2. Unzip the downloaded file. This can be done by double clicking on the folder that was downloaded to your Downloads/ folder. It will create a folder of the same name in your Downloads folder.

  3. Navigate to the folder and open it with VSCode. Then, follow the instructions below.

Completing this Lab

For each of the tasks below, you will need to follow the steps exactly. Then, you'll use the history command as described below to get a print out of the last commands you ran. Each line printed out should match one of the instructions. If it didn't work exactly right, practice again!

Copy the output from the history command into the my-solution.md file in the appropriate location.

If you are asked to create any directories or files in the tasks below, you may delete them after you have submitted this lab.

Submitting the Lab

To submit the Lab on Canvas, you will need to upload the file from your computer to Canvas. After clicking the "Start Assignment" button, you should see a place to upload a file.

Canvas view of uploading a file

You only need to upload the my-solution.md file. You should not need to upload any other files.

Reach out to an instructor if you need help.

Tasks

Task 1

Complete the steps below as described.

  1. Navigate to your home directory.

  2. Create a new directory called introductory-command-line-lab/.

  3. Navigate inside of that directory.

  4. Create a file called commands.txt.

  5. Open the entire introductory-command-line-lab/ directory in Finder from the command line.

  6. Navigate back to your home directory, using a relative file path.

Once you are done, type the following command:

history | tail -n 10

Task 2

Complete the steps below as described.

  1. Navigate to your home directory.

  2. Create a new folder called module-one/ from your home directory.

  3. From your home directory, create a new folder inside of the module-one/ folder called introductory-javascript/.

  4. From your home directory, create a new folder inside of the introductory-javascript/ folder called variables/.

  5. From your home directory, create three new files at once inside of the variables/ folder called: var.txt, let.txt, and const.txt.

  6. From your home directory, open up with VSCode the variables/ folder using a relative path.

Once you are done, type the following command:

history | tail -n 10