- 45 minutes
- Speed up your workflow dramatically by using keyboard shortcuts. Bash/Shell shortcuts in particular will improve your control and comfort with the command line.
Participants will be able to:
- Navigate the command line more easily using common shortcuts
- Bash/Shell navigation shortcuts
- Slides
- Great Intro Video to Bash/Shell Navigation
- 8 min Video: Mac OS X Terminal: Time-saving Keyboard Shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcut practice app
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Have apprentices open their command lines and navigate to a folder they feel comfortable experimenting in.
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Show video linked above, which should be embedded in the slideshow. Have apprentices follow along on their command lines.
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Introduce the app below, and allow apprentices a few minutes to practice.
- This is our custom app for memorizing command line keyboard shortcuts.
- Apprentices are encouraged to practice the Keyboard Shortcut Practice App 30 minutes per week during their first month.
Command Line Keyboard Shortcuts:
General Keyboard Shortcuts:
You don't have to use keyboard shortcuts for everything on your computer, but after trying common desktop shortcuts out, you may prefer some of them to a mouse interface.
Cheat Sheet App:
There's an optional app that shows you a Keyboard Shortcut cheat sheet on a mac whenever you hold down the command key in most applications. Note this will help with your command line app, but not the commands themselves. This app gets great reviews on Product Hunt.
- Download Cheat Sheet for Mac here.
- Install it, drag it into your applications, open it.
- Change the settings it recommends in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Accessibility.
- Navigate to different applications and try holding down the command key for 2 seconds to see if it works!