Terminal & CLI

Practice typing real terminal commands. From navigation and file operations to Git workflows and Docker commands.

Navigation

Practice directory navigation commands: cd, ls, and pwd.

Print working directory, list files, and change directory
Navigate to parent, home, previous directory, and list with sizes
List hidden files and recursively list a directory
Glob pattern listing, sorted by time, and tree view

File Operations

Type commands for copying, moving, removing, and creating files and directories.

Create directories, files, and copy
Rename, move with glob, and force remove
Recursive copy, remove, and brace expansion
Symlink, directory sizes, and disk space

File Viewing

Practice commands for viewing and examining file contents.

View files with cat (with line numbers) and less
View first/last lines and follow log output
Line count, sort with unique, and file diff
Concatenation, append, and character translation

Searching

Type search commands for finding files and content.

Recursive grep, with line numbers, and case-insensitive
Find by name, modified time, and size
Locate executables with which, whereis, and type
Combined grep with include filter and piped find

Permissions

Practice changing file permissions and ownership.

Set permissions with numeric and symbolic modes
Change ownership and recursive permissions
SSH directory permissions
System file permissions and umask

Process Management

Type commands for managing system processes.

List processes and filter with grep
Kill processes by PID, name, and pattern
Background processes and job control
List open ports and network connections

Git Commands

Practice essential Git commands for version control.

Initialize repo, stage, and commit
Branch creation, push, and pull
Status, staged diff, and formatted log
Stash, cherry-pick, and rebase
Remote, tagging, and pushing tags

Docker Commands

Type essential Docker commands for container management.

Build an image and run a container
List containers, follow logs, and exec into shell
Docker Compose up, down, and logs
Image cleanup, volume listing, and network creation
Multi-line Docker run with environment variables and volumes

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