Command Line Essentials: Git Bash for Windows

An overview of the tools we will be installing in this section, including Git for Windows and Notepad++.

Installing the versioning software Git for Windows onto our local Windows System.

Installing the text editor Notepad++ onto our local Windows system.

Configuring Notepad++ to work better on our local system.

Executing each of several basic Bash terminal commands, allowing us to  navigate in bash, work with files and folders, execute scripts, create scripts, and use supporting commands.

Using the basic location commands pwd, and ls to view the file system on our local operating system.

Using the basic navigational command cd to navigate on our local file system within our terminal application.

Using the which command to determine if a command is available on our local system, demonstrating what it looks like when a command is not located on our system.

Using the echo command to repeat text or variables back to ourselves.

Using a basic command (cat) as well as a more complex command (less) to view files on our local system.

Creating, renaming, and deleting files within our bash terminal using touch, mv, and rm.

Creating and deleting folders, with our without files, within our bash terminal by using  mkdir, rmdir, and rm -rf.

Using commands to clear off the stuff on the terminal screen, as well as using a command to exit out of our terminal when we are  done.

Using the greater than and less than signs to send the output of commands to create or append to a text file on our system.

Using our text editor to create a simple shell script, make that script executable, and then finally execute that shell script.

Customizing our bash environment by creating our modifying our .bashrc file, which will allow us to create an alias to shorten a command.

A final summary of what was covered in this section and what you should be able to do after taking this course.