Essentials for Command Line and Terminal

Using the Terminal #

Traverse through directories and files using the terminal.

cd /path/to/directory

List all files in the current directory.

ls //you can also do a -ls to get more information

Create a new directory.

mkdir new_directory

Remove a file.

rm file_name //you can FORCE remove -rf (not really recommended unless you know what you are doing)

Remove a directory.

rm -r directory_name

Basic Git Commands #

Initialize a new git repository.

git init

Clone a repository from GitHub.

git clone repository_url

Sanity check on your files

git status

Add a file to the staging area.

git add file_name

Commit changes to the repository.

git commit -m "commit message"

Push changes to the repository.

git push

Pull changes from the repository.

git pull

Conda Environment Management #

Make sure you installed conda first

Create a new environment.

conda create --name myenv python=3.9

Activate the environment.

conda activate myenv

Deactivate the environment.

conda deactivate

If you need the environment part of your jupyter notebook, you can install the ipykernel package. While your in your activated environment, run the following commands.

pip install ipykernel
python -m ipykernel install --user --name=my-python3-kernel