Where would all the computer science students that didn't know a lot about the practical stuff prior to studying computer science be without people like you? Seriously, CS is such a hard field because there is tons of stuff University will not teach you but people expect you to know. Thank you very much for this introduction to the terminal!

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind comment Herr Hurbig, I'm so glad the video was useful for you.

@elligue

3 жыл бұрын

An old dilemma, or if it is an dilemma at all? I remember when a friend was looking to hire a coupple of people to their computer company some 20 years ago. After a lot of interviews of applicants from university as well as pure home hackers the only ones qualified for the task were the home hackers without any formal education in the matter. Titles are NOT a guarantee for competence. I usually say that the world have never been ruled by so many stupid people with fine titles as today, not impliing that everyone with a fine title is stupid.

@GiggleYohoo

2 жыл бұрын

You don't have to worry much because I am a computer engg graduate and ended up detailing cars for years.Nowadays, I would say that whom you know is better than what you know. I am not that dumb but I can pretend. Haha

@nickcarvajal

2 жыл бұрын

I made a career off videos like these

@Portia620

12 күн бұрын

Agreed!!! Awesome stuff!!! ❤❤

I didn't know anything about MacOS terminals at all and you broke it down for me so simply. Thank you so much. I screamed when I saw you could edit text on the terminal. I was shocked.

it is truly a good tutorial that I had ever found, quite easy to learn and useful during working, appreciate it! hope to learn more from you

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment, glad the video was useful 🙏

Thank you for uploading this video, have been looking for something like this since a long time, your way of explaining things makes it extremely easy for the viewers to understand.

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Bibek Singh, thank you for taking the time to leave a kind comment like this. I'm very glad the video was valuable for you.

@royakha1484

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you , its just amazing 🙏❤️

Bro, this is beautiful. I have zero computer skills but you made it easy to grasp. Thoroughly enjoyed this lesson.

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment, I'm really happy it was easy for you grasp. Good luck! 🙏

I am a literature student working in the area of Digital Humanities. We have a test tomorrow and I thought I was gonna fail because I did not know even a bit about Command Line. This video has helped me a lot in just 17 mins! Think I will do well in test tomorrow 😁 Thank you making me feel confident about knowing computers!

This video is awesome Percy. I was very frustrated with Terminal as I am just getting familiar and after watching this video I feel much better. it was eye opening. Thank you very much!

Thanks for making this video. There are some other videos on youtube about terminal but the first thing they do is tell you to install some extra software before you even start using terminal. I like that you start off just doing basic commands that we can use without installing anything extra.

I've been looking for a tutorial like this for years! Perfect!

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Kumoito jp, so glad you liked the video, thank you for your comment 🙏

Thank you so much for this video! I just started The Odin Project, and I was having a really hard time understanding this concept, and I feel like I totally understand this now!! Plus I'm teaching this to myself at 1:30 in the morning!

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Very glad the video was helpful. Good on you for starting the Odin Project, I had not heard of that before, but it looks really well put together. Good luck.

I just started teaching myself c and this is soooo helpful bc pretty much all the beginner videos don’t cover this and I’ve literally spent hours trying to figure this out from scratch

I’ve had a Mac for years and all this time I’ve been using the GUI to navigate and only recently been exposed to using the terminal, your tutorial is so easy to follow and understand. Thank you.

@no_name4796

5 ай бұрын

Honestly the terminal is the only reason mac is better then windows. Yes, i use linux btw (not arch btw, but hey i write code in neovim btw, so that's already some good bragging rights there ;-)

I’m glad I found your channel. I can’t say I’ve found a use for terminal yet but I can say I now understand what it does. I thank you, sir.

@zuberkariye2299

3 жыл бұрын

JESUS CHRIST I am going for IT security and hacking, I did one IT internship while ago and I wish I knew this before my internship and this is why I’m learning cuz I’m going in the tech industry like coding, IT and more

@theknightikins9397

3 жыл бұрын

@@zuberkariye2299 what do you use it for? I’ve only ever used it to open files and such. I don’t even do that too often as I don’t like the UI as much as say the finder or text editor. I assume you can use the terminal to access the system and do some cool stuff but I’m just curious what you do in it.

@zuberkariye2299

3 жыл бұрын

@@theknightikins9397 you can install more tools that don’t have GUI support besides cli(command line based). I will suggest you learn Linux such as Ubuntu and you will like the terminal

@zuberkariye2299

3 жыл бұрын

@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ sudo same I am here trying to create a zip file with a password and then crack it

@zuberkariye2299

3 жыл бұрын

@⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ sudo I seen you on SecurityFWD channel yesterday

Incredible, simply incredible. You're a brilliant teacher and this video has been super helpful. Thanks a lot.

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

This comment really made my day, thank you so much for the compliment and I'm very happy the video has been helpful for you 🙏

This is the best straight-to-the-point bash beginner tutorial that I've found, thanks so much!

This is absolute gold! Liked and subscribed. Please make a part 2 to this!

Wow. I just started taking a Python Bootcamp an hour ago, and it mentioned the Terminal. I came here and was amazed by how fast you can learn a new skill that you never knew existed. Great video Percy. I am a new fan of yours now.

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment John, I'm really happy this was helpful, good luck in your bootcamp

@dr_corrupt1014

Жыл бұрын

@@toptechskills Your video is really helpful

@donteejay242

Жыл бұрын

I also started learning python some days ago and they mentioned command prompt, I had to Google for mac and found out its terminal and I found myself on this channel

Great class, simple nicely paced instructions with great visuals.

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, appreciate the comment 🙏

I had zero knowledge of the terminal, but now I am confident to use it in my project. Thank you very much, God bless you!!

thank you so much for this video! I did every part easily and the instructions were very clear. I'm really happy to find your channel.

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback Grane, very pleased you found the video easy to follow

Clear, concise, and a great quick refresher after not using terminal for a few years. Thanks!

This is really really helpful for me as a beginner .It cleared lot of my doubts . Thank u so much for making this video.

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

I'm very glad it was helpful, thank you very much for your comment 🙏

Crystal & Clear. Thanks man ❤️

Hey Percy, great video! Smooth and not boring at all. I have knowledge of these commands right now! Thank you!

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment Anılcan Durak, good luck with Ansible!

wow, this was so amazing, it surely helped me understand how Terminal works

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! 🙏

This was really well done! would be amazing to see a guide to installing software (pip, python etc) and talk about bash and shell

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words, Snow. Hope to get back into making content like this in future.

3 years later and this is still so helpful!! Do you have any videos on how to compile using Terminal?

My bootcamp prep course suggested this video to learn basics. Clear and concise. Cheers m8

@toptechskills

Жыл бұрын

Hi S M, I'm very happy the video was helpful and I'm grateful your bootcamp prep course suggested the video. Out of interest, which bootcamp/prep course are you taking?

been working with Terminal for a couple days and getting little accomplished. I understood everything in this 17 minute video and executed everything perfectly. Thank you!

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Chris, very happy the video was helpful.

There actually is a way to "go back" using cd command that is completely equivalent to what the "back" button does in Finder (which is that actually goes to previous location you've been to, not necessarily to the parent directory). It's cd - (minus). Just leaving it here cause I found it useful from time to time.

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Very nice, I had forgotten about that, thanks for sharing.

@matisscukurs5535

Жыл бұрын

oh nice, It also outputs the working directory. Appreciated.

Amazing job demystifying the dreaded terminal! Great tutorial. Easy to follow!

This is one of the first videos in a while where I have easily understood the instructor in the video, thank you so much!

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind words Harry, I'm pleased it was easy to understand

This tutorial has made me feel like a mac wizard, thank you so much

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome, so glad it was helpful, thank you for your comment

So, I'm a health professional who has been curious how computers actually work and one of my IT friend referred your video. I must say, I practiced step by step along you & I practiced all the tasks you taught here. Thank you for making it so easy mate! :))

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind comment Remy, hope the video helped you on your journey to understanding computers!

@im.rakesh0827

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously , it's a great tutorial

this is the most amazing tutorial I have come across. that's why they say if you can't explain it simple enough you don't understand it well enough.

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Jonah

Great video as a longtime Windows dev and now Mac dev. There were a lot of useful tips!

For bash shell (as your default shell), + l would clear the screen too. Also, it would probably be better to run "ls -la" so you would know which ones are directories and which ones are files so you don't accidentally try to change directory with a file and get an error message!

I wanted to learn python but figured I should figure out how to use my mac terminal first, this really helped me out! Thanks a lot man!!

@jeshuruncarlos6649

2 жыл бұрын

Same Here....

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you both, I'm very glad it was helpful, thanks for the comments

Thank you, best example of terminal I've ever seen

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mel 🙏

I've been picking up software development on my own, and I am currently learning through the "Odin project" I am currently working on learning on navigating through the terminal and learning commands, and oh boy! Once I saw this video everything clicked and made sense! Thank you!

I've never learnt to use the terminal so efficiently in such a short time :D. These commands are all I needed

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Very glad to hear about your terminal progress, thanks for your comment 🙏

And this is how you teach a class. Thanks!

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the kind comment, thank you.

YOUR VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS ARE EXCELLENT. I've watched many a how-to video. Most all of them could learn from you. Thanks for a great....no make that GREAT video.

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the positive feedback -- I'm really pleased you feel that way. I put a lot of effort into trying to communicate things clearly for all viewers, so this sort of feedback really makes my day 🙏

Really helpful, excellent explanation. Just what I was looking for, thanks so much !!!

Hi there, this tutorial was quite easy, since I was used to MS-Dos commands, but what is the benefit of using shell commands compare to GUI input besides the speed? Can I write a function that will trigger certain bash commands together to interact with PC? What would be a good example of that if it is possible? I have a hard time learning stuff if I do not know the practical usage for it.

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Qk9CWU5ib3x, I would say that for most people who are not intending to work in IT, the advantage of being familiar with the terminal is mainly that there are certain operations even on a Mac that you cannot do in a GUI. Being comfortable with the terminal will help you in these situations since you'll already have some level of understanding of what's going on, or where to run the command. For people that would like to learn how to program, or want to do system administration, these skills are essential since a lot of the tools you'll be using do not have a GUI at all, and in a lot of ways dealing with these tools via command line interface (CLI) is much simpler and faster. Your question hits on another huge benefit of command line knowledge: scripting and automation. You can certainly write scripts and functions for interacting with the PC, check out some articles on "bash scripting" and "bash functions" (I recommend a book called "How Linux Works"). One example of a useful script might be one to automatically delete files in your downloads directory that are over 30 days old. Hope that's useful, thanks for your comment.

@Dani-hh3qd

3 жыл бұрын

@@toptechskills I'm an absolute beginner in programming and only have been using GUI's so far. Can you recommend me any books to get a better understanding of what's happening under the hood, or any books in general for an IT student that are a must read? Thanks in advance!

When you say -r is the way to delete folders, I feel like that implies there are different types of deletion commands (aside from -r) what are they and WHY are they different?

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Running the command `man rm` will show the manual entry for the `rm` command and can show the explanation of the different options the command accepts (such as `-r`). Basically the `-r` or `-R` option tells `rm` to delete the entire file hierarchy under the file/directory you are trying to remove recursively. If you don't pass this argument, `rm` will not attempt to delete any files inside the directory you are trying to remove and would fail unless the directory is empty. The `rmdir` command is essentially equivalent to `rm -r`. Hope this helps, thank you for the comment 🙏

@respawnicon

2 жыл бұрын

@@toptechskills ok i just saw this nvm

Excellent video! Super Easy! Thanks A LOT!

MAKE SURE TO PUT A SPACE BETWEEN THE CD AND THE DOTS!

@MB-ju6yv

3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@KevinJohnMulligan

3 жыл бұрын

@@MB-ju6yv nothing bad will happen, but it won't work and that will be confusing.

@MB-ju6yv

3 жыл бұрын

@@KevinJohnMulligan ok thanks

New Year's Eve won't stop the real professionals.

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, well spotted ECP 😂

Percy could you please do more videos just watch this and love it and would love to see even more advanced lessons you give amazing explanation would love to see more of your videos. I’ll be start my IT school in month and wanted get familiar with terminal and Vim and other stuff.

Very helpful thank you Percy, I’m planning to keep learning cmd en route to launching my first vps. It all started here!

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Best of luck, James. Glad the video was helpful, thank you for your comment.

Great video, helped me figure out my mistakes moving from PC to Mac. Thanks!

Excellent tutorial Percy. Great communication skills. I feel smarter and less anxious now when looking at the empty Terminal window. Thanks very much!

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

I'm really happy to hear that, thank you very much for your comment

That was awesome bro u taught me something important so fast I appreciate it !

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Happy to help Quezzo Sr, thanks for your comment and good luck!

Excellent - clear and concise explanation to overcome Terminal anxiety! I hope you have more presentations to build on the basics! Subscribed!

I needed to learn this quickly. Your video has really helped. Thank you.

Thanks for the awesome intro. Easy to follow and learned a lot quickly!

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dougyfresh 231 🙏

Thank you Percy, this tutorial absolutely helped me get reacquainted with my OS and how to maneuver through the directories. Much appreciated. Do you have any more tutorials on the Mac OS system that I can watch. Most helpful.

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Gary, I'm very glad this video was helpful for you. I don't have any other videos about Mac OS at the moment, but I would like to make more in future. Thank you for your comment, it means a lot.

I can't express how helpful this video is, THANK YOU so much

Honestly very helpful! Thank you for putting this up. Glad I found it.

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, I'm very glad it was helpful, thank you for your comment

Extremely helpful and incredibly clear. Thank you!

This is a brilliant tutorial. Clear and concise explanations. Thanks for posting

OMG I am so relieved watching this video. Thank you!!!

Yep this very much got me on track. Explained eloquently!

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment 🙏

thank u for this lesson! I wish i was younger to learn this fast, but i sure appreciate your tutoring, and though it will take me long, i will surely make use of this in the near future.

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Hannah, good luck!

Thank you for the information Percy, greatly appreciated

Thank you so much for this, I was so lost before and you explained everything perfectly.

Thank you for this video. I really do appreciate it. I have zero knowledge about computers and this video has been really helpful

This is so good. I didn't know anything about terminal but need to learn for an application I need to run that only works under terminal. Other tutorials I looked at left out so many things that you included. There is an assumption by people running terminal that you know what that $ sign means. I didn't, how to look inside a directory and how to make it show in finder. Thanks for this

Cool video for beginners . Thank you so much !

Great intro to the terminal. Thank you! Subscribed.

That was extremely helpful. Thank you!

Very well done. This video gave me confidence on day 2 of my journey through the Terminal. You made these basics easy to understand and perform. THANK YOU

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Hi David, I'm so pleased to hear this video helped you on your Terminal journey, best of luck with it. Thank you for your kind comment 🙏

@gr0124

3 жыл бұрын

Do you know why I can not post anything here

@davidlane777

3 жыл бұрын

@@gr0124 like the post you just made or something different?

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!

Good straightforward explanation of commands, thx!

great video for beginners , I am taking my first course for coding and the clases are for windows system but I use Mac , I am also taking them in spanish cause my lenguage is spanish , i speak some english better than I can understand , but your speech was very clear for me to understand this class , thank you so much i really appreciate to people like you that helps studentes like me with this stuff!! thank you thank you!!

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for this comment, I'm very happy to hear video was helpful and easy to understand. Good luck with your course!

Many thanks for this video! It helped me a lot.

This was very easy and comprehensive. Thank you!

That was amazing! Thanks so much!

all confusion sorted out .thank you very much for this wonderful beginners tutorial on terminal!

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, thank you for your comment!

Bravo man. Very clear and helpful.

Thank you so much for this video Percy! Im new to CS and really needed all of these baby steps!

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Very happy to help Brandi, good luck!

This helped me a lot. Thank you very much!

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, thank you for your comment 🙏

Great video , you helped me with the project that I was stoked for 2 days Thank you so much

Amazing video , this is so interesting but hard, eventually we will get there as I'm a beginner including some people that searched this thank you

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment JuiceBoxTV, good luck on your journey, keep at it and you'll be a pro in no time 👍

You are such a life saver, the command sheetchart didnt make sense to me. Thank you

Very helpful. I've used these commands before, but didn't know what they meant, just saw it in a guide (and probably why I forgot them).

Thank you, your video was incredibly helpful!

I'm texting you from the future - January, 2022. You are the CHAMP, godsend! Calm voice with clear, concise instructions!!! Prior to your video, I was close to figuring things out but, no dice. I felt like Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson trying to start the iMac in Zoolander. Percy, you da' man, man!!

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment, I'm really happy to hear that it helped and for the positivity. Good luck in the Terminal!

Wow. So helpful. I put off learning the shell because it was co complicated. Thank you!

@toptechskills

4 жыл бұрын

Glad the video was helpful Christine, good luck in the shell!

@ntg7586

4 жыл бұрын

@@toptechskills can you please help me my instagram is 360_tg I want to learn!

Thank you so very much!!!! I was really struggling with these basics commands

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome Ingrid, glad it was helpful for you, thank you for your comment 🙏

super useful, loved it

The repetitive style of teaching really helps me. Helps it stick a little better. Thanks for the video. Subscribed 😊

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you Rhys!

this was great ! thanks for this wonderful tutorial :) 😀

Thank you for putting your time on this video

amazing clear video! thank you! will follow your videos for further learning.

Thank You very much for this tutorial video. Im a beginner to this top and this video gave me full understanding and ability to work through Terminal. 🙏🙏

@toptechskills

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so pleased it was useful for you, thank you so much for your comment. Good luck! 🙏

Useful. Great explain approach.

Thank you so much! Your video was tremendously helpful! That's absolutely a resourceful guide for beginners like me!

@toptechskills

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your comment Jobastien, I'm really happy to hear the video was helpful for you.

So clear and understandable thank you!!!!