![]() Feeling scared of the command line? You’re not alone. We have this image of developers staring intently at a black screen with white or green text flashing across as they wildly enter incomprehensible commands to hack into the corporate mainframe (no doubt while guzzling soda and wiping neon orange Cheetos dust off their keyboard). That black screen or window is the command line interface (CLI), where you’re able to enter commands that your computer will run for you. While there’s no need for you to reenact the scene above, working with the command line is a critical skill for you to learn as a developer. The command line is like our base of operations, from which we can launch other programs and interact with them. It has a syntax of its own to learn, but since you’ll be entering the same commands dozens of times, you’ll quickly pick up the commands you need most. ![]() In this introductory lesson to the command line, you’ll learn how to navigate around your computer and how to manipulate files and directories (also known as folders) directly from the comfort of the command line. You’ll soon see that this isn’t as difficult as you may think. The commands you will learn in this lesson are very straightforward. So don’t let the prospect of using the command line for the first time intimidate you. Linux: Open the programs menu and search for “Terminal”. You can also open the terminal by pressing CTRL + ALT + T on your keyboard. MacOS: Open your Applications > Utilities folder and find “Terminal”. You can also use Spotlight search to open Terminal. Press RETURN to open it.īefore we do anything, take a look at the following text: Press CMD + SPACE to open Spotlight, and search for “Terminal”. This is a terminal command because it begins with a $. The $ is saying “Hey! Enter what follows in your terminal.” This means that we must exclude the $ when entering any command. In the example above, we would only enter whoami in our terminal. You can set it to any font, independent of your Text Editor font.This is a common indicator so make sure that you aren’t entering $ before a command. You can also access more VS Code WSL options by using the shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+P in VS Code to bring up the command palette. To open a project from your WSL distribution, open the distribution's command line and enter: code. By default, the font will be the same as that for the Output Window Contents, using Menlo Regular 11. Open a WSL project in Visual Studio Code From the command-line. You can change the font Family, Typeface and Size used for the Terminal Window Contents from Preferences. If you use a different keyboard layout, please read how can see the representation in your current keyboard. If you want open another one use Ctrl + Shift + vscode keys shortcuts are rendered assuming a standard US keyboard layout. You can switch between instances by clicking on the tab for each instance, or using the Ctrl+tab shortcut to use the window picker dialog.Ĭustomizing the terminal window Configuring the terminal font In vscode you can use multiple integrated terminals. You can create a new instance by using the Ctrl+' keyboard shortcut. Multiple instances of the Terminal may be running at any time. You can search the content of the Terminal window by using the Search > Find. Set the working directory to the path of the current solution.By default, when the Terminal is launched it will:
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