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Development Tools Console Foundations Getting Started with the Console Running Commands

Dejan Buric
Dejan Buric
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Posted by Dejan Buric
Dejan Buric
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ls & clear command on Windows 7

I tried to use this two command in my CMD windows 7 console. Response was:

"ls is not recognized..." "clear is not recognized..."

Are these commands just for POSIX standard based systems command lines? Will we just learn commands for POSIX's systems? Are front end developers and programmers using command line on windows platform so often?

Thanks.

2 Answers

William Li
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William Li
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William Li
William Li
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Yes, ls & clear are commands for POSIX systems only. The equivalent ones for Windows' CMD would be

  • ls = dir
  • clear = cls

Will we just learn commands for POSIX's systems?

Yes.

Are front end developers and programmers using command line on windows platform so often?

To the best of my knowledge, a lot of frontend developers are using POSIX system. For those who're using Windows as frontend development machine, I'm not sure to what extent they're using CMD; truth is that, nowadays, there're few resources for learning CMD.

Dejan Buric
Dejan Buric
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Dejan Buric
Dejan Buric
12,560 Points

Thanks on answer, sorry if my grammar was bad. English is my 2nd language. :)

William Li
William Li
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William Li
William Li
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no problem, I can understand your english just fine :)

Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
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Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
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So what application can we use to run a console on a Windows machine that would emulate a console on a POSIX system?

jason chan
jason chan
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jason chan
jason chan
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https://git-for-windows.github.io/

You can follow along with the git bash. Git bash is unix.

Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
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Reuven Kishon
Reuven Kishon
5,270 Points

I don't understand, are you saying that Git Bash is a terminal application that can be used on a Windows Machine that will enable us to effectively have a POSIX console instead of what is typically used on a Windows Machine (and thus requires knowing the other command set, which involves using dir instead of ls, as just one example?)