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CREATION OF FOLDER AND FILES USING GITBASH
Just started out as a web developer, and it has been fun all along. Creating folders and files, using git as a whole to push your project onto github, is what I have been taught lately. In light of this, I would like to share my knowledge on what this is all about one step at a time.
OUTLINE
- How to create a folder.
- How to create a file.
- How to check the content of a file.
- How to move out of a folder or file.
- How to remove a file.
- How to remove a folder
HOW TO CREATE A FOLDER
Launch gitbash on your computer, and create a folder on the desktop. You type in cd desktop, to let your computer know you are on its desktop using gitbash. After this process, you type mkdir "folder name" to create your folder.
HOW TO CREATE A FILE
To create a file in the folder, you type in cd folder, to move into the folder. Afterall, you don'nt want to create a seperate file out of the folder. After moving into the folder, you type in touch "file name" to create a file inside the folder. And you can create as much file as you want in that same folder, provided the file name differs.
HOW TO CHECK THE CONTENT OF FILE
To have a peek at whatever is inside the file you created, you type in ls "file name", inputting this command helps you list whatever you have in the file you have created.
HOW TO MOVE OUT OF A FOLDER OR FILE
If you want to go back a step, or move to a previous directory you were in, you type in cd ... It is that easy.
HOW TO REMOVE A FILE
To delete or remove a file from a folder that you no longer need, you need to move out of the file first by using cd .., then you type in rm "file name" to delete the file you no longer need.
HOW TO REMOVE A FOLDER
Removing a folder from the desktop is a bit different from deleteing a file, all you have to do is move out of the folder using... yup you guessed it, cd .. to move onto the desktop. Then to delete or remove a folder completely from a desktop, you use rm -r "file name"
So, that's a wrap folks, simple basics of using gitbash. CIAO 😉.