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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.

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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

Apr 25, 2019 Using the CD command in Terminal is pretty easy and it follows the same syntax that you use on Windows in the command prompt. Cd path-to-folder. While we’re on the topic of Windows and Command Prompt, you can easily open a command prompt in any folder on Windows 10 by typing cmd in the location bar in File. Our mega cheat sheet of Mac terminal commands provides a great reference for all the important commands you should know. MacOS is an intuitive operating system, so you don't have to spend lot of time learning the basics; Knowing this, why should you learn and take advantage of the Unix command line available on your Mac?

CMD window

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.

Step 1, Launch Terminal. Look for Terminal in Applications → Utilities → Terminal. You can also open Terminal by using spotlight in the right hand top corner.Step 2, Open an application from anywhere. The open command normally requires you to input the full file path from your current directory. However, adding -a followed by the name of an application instructs Terminal to open that Application, no matter where it is located. For example: To open iTunes: open -a iTunes Use quotation.

• Apple's Terminal app is a direct interface to OS X's bash shell — part of its UNIX underpinnings. When you open it, Terminal presents you with a white text screen, logged in with your OS X user account by default.
• Open Terminal preferences. Command-Comma (,) Break. Typing Command-Period (.) is equivalent to entering Control-C on the command line. Soft reset terminal emulator state. Hard reset terminal emulator state. Hold down the Command key and double-click the URL.

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

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

Delete a file

To delete a file exeute:

WINDOWS	MAC OS
del filename	rm -Rf filename

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

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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”

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