In this video, we will be tying together all of the information we learned in our previous two videos in order to explore and customize some pre-built dotfiles. Dotfiles can be extremely powerful and some people have put in a lot of effort to squeeze a lot of functionality into theirs. Luckily, the have open sourced these dotfiles for use to explore and learn. Let’s check out how we can use these files for ourselves:
In this video, we will be learning how to customize our terminal with dotfiles. In a previous video we learned about the difference between the .bash_profile and .bashrc files. And in this video we will be customizing those files in order to add color and information to our command prompt. In our next video we will be putting all of this together and exploring the real power of dotfiles, but before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s customize our prompt:
In the next few videos, we will be taking a look at how to customize our terminal with dotfiles. First, we need to understand the main dotfiles we will be working with, the .bashrc and .bash_profile files. What is the difference between these files and which one should you modify in order to customize your terminal? Let find out:
In this video, we will be learning basic terminal commands which will allow us to create, copy, rename, move, and delete file and directories. These commands include: touch, mkdir, cp, mv, rm, as well as exploring some options we can use with these commands. Let’s get started:
In this video we will look at some common mistakes in Git and how we can fix these mistakes. Specifically we will cover how to discard changes since your last commit, amending commits, cherry-picking hashes, resetting to a specific commit, and reverting to a specific commit. Let’s get started:
The Terminal can be an intimidating place for people who are just beginning to learn how to use it. There is a fear that you will type the wrong command and somehow mess everything up.
In this video, we will begin learning how to use the Terminal by navigating through your filesystem. This is a great way to get comfortable within your terminal, because the commands we will be learning won’t have any side-effects on your system. You can’t accidentally delete files or modify important documents. Learning these basics will provide us with a great starting point for more advanced commands. Let’s get started:
The “git add” command is fundamental to using Git. It is how we add files to the staging area to be committed. But which files get added? Well, that is up to us. In this video, we will look at the different options for using the add command and how we can use it to add the exact files we would like to the staging area.
Running a local web-server to test a simple website is usually way harder than it has to be. In this video, we will look at a quick and simple way to run a local web-server without needing to download or configure anything. All you need is python (If you are on Mac or Linux, this is likely already installed). We will be using python’s SimpleHTTPServer. It’s literally as simple as navigating to your website folder and running the server. Let’s get started.
Command to run python’s SimpleHTTPServer on port 8000:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000Git is the most popular version control system out there and for good reason. In this video, we’ll go over the basics of what git is and how to use it within the command-line. There are several GUI tools out there to help you get started with git, but it can be extremely beneficial to learn git from the command-line as early as possible. Let’s get started.
If you navigate from your terminal frequently, you have most likely run into the scenario where you are within a project directory and want to open a file or folder from that project. It is a pain to open up Finder, navigate to the project, and open the file or directory that way. Being able to open these projects and files from the terminal is much more convenient and saves a lot of time. In this video we’ll look at how we can do just that:
The line that links the “subl” command to /usr/local/bin/ is as follows:
ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/subl