The command line is a quick, powerful, text-based interface developers use to more effectively and efficiently communicate with computers to accomplish a wider set of tasks.

Command-line interface(CLI), is a text-based application for giving commands, viewing, handling, and manipulating files on your computer.

Command-line interface comes built in for free in most operating systems. It is known as the following in different operating systems:

Command Prompt (Windows)

Terminal (Mac Os)

Terminal or Terminal Emulator (Linux based systems )

Knowing how to use the command line interface is a useful skill to have when working with computers particularly if you plan to learn how to write computer programs or become a developer or programmer.

This course will teach you some basic and commonly used commands on the command line interface. Knowing how to use the command line interface is a very useful skill to add to your skillset. The command line interface can be used to perform a variety of tasks.

What You will learn :

• How to open the command line

• The prompt

• How to display current user

• How to display computer name

• How to display current working directory

• How to list files and directory

• How to change directory

• How to create a directory

• How to create a file

• How to copy a file

• How to move a file

• How to delete a file