1 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:08,390 A what is up. 2 00:00:08,430 --> 00:00:14,380 Everybody this is Jason with Def soapstar calm and in this video we are going to learn how to create 3 00:00:14,380 --> 00:00:17,920 folders and files in this lesson. 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,460 So let's get to it. 5 00:00:20,470 --> 00:00:23,620 All right so we've already covered how to change directories. 6 00:00:23,630 --> 00:00:23,970 All right. 7 00:00:23,980 --> 00:00:28,690 So let's go ahead and make sure that we're at our home base here. 8 00:00:28,780 --> 00:00:29,310 OK. 9 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,960 So I just went to the root level of my computer here. 10 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:38,230 Now what we want to do is I'm going to go ahead and change my directory to the desktop. 11 00:00:38,380 --> 00:00:40,910 And then we're going to go ahead and create our first folder. 12 00:00:41,110 --> 00:00:43,490 So go ahead and change that directory. 13 00:00:43,750 --> 00:00:50,890 We're going to put this folder on our desktop now to create a folder what we're going to do is we're 14 00:00:50,890 --> 00:00:57,280 going to use a command called M-K derms so for make directory All right this is going to create folders 15 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:03,490 and this is really important to know because I use this all the time when I'm creating brand new projects 16 00:01:03,490 --> 00:01:09,940 or if I'm adding a folder to my project I'll simply do this through the terminal instead of having to 17 00:01:09,940 --> 00:01:15,850 go into the finder find my project right click click click some you know dropdown menu and create folders 18 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:17,180 in that way. 19 00:01:17,290 --> 00:01:18,960 It's a lot easier to do it like this. 20 00:01:18,970 --> 00:01:22,920 And then we can go ahead and very quickly add files to this on our desktop. 21 00:01:22,930 --> 00:01:26,170 We're going to create a folder make directory and we'll call this 22 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,520 directory fun. 23 00:01:31,530 --> 00:01:32,310 All right. 24 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:33,450 Cool. 25 00:01:33,490 --> 00:01:40,330 So now if we list out the items on my desktop you can see that we have just created a folder called 26 00:01:40,330 --> 00:01:47,410 directory fun and in the Finder if we go over to my desktop you'll see that we've just created the folder 27 00:01:47,410 --> 00:01:48,550 right here. 28 00:01:48,550 --> 00:01:52,690 Now what I'm what I'm going to do is in the Finder I want to kind of give you a visual of what's happening 29 00:01:52,690 --> 00:01:53,340 here. 30 00:01:53,380 --> 00:01:59,140 I'm going to double click on the folder in my finder you can see that this folder is MT-NW from her 31 00:01:59,140 --> 00:01:59,750 terminal. 32 00:01:59,770 --> 00:02:04,190 What we're going to do now is we're going to create some files inside of this directory. 33 00:02:04,330 --> 00:02:08,950 So make sure that we change the directory into the folder we just created. 34 00:02:09,250 --> 00:02:12,530 And I'm going to hit tab on the directory. 35 00:02:12,580 --> 00:02:16,760 How did I spell this direct or refund. 36 00:02:16,790 --> 00:02:18,770 All right cool. 37 00:02:18,790 --> 00:02:23,070 So now we've changed our directory in here if we list the sound just like it shows in our finder and 38 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:24,400 there there's nothing here. 39 00:02:24,670 --> 00:02:29,110 So to create a file we can use a command called Touch. 40 00:02:29,290 --> 00:02:30,910 So simply write touch. 41 00:02:31,060 --> 00:02:37,180 And then here we can create our files so say we're starting a brand new project and we need to set up 42 00:02:37,570 --> 00:02:45,280 in the mail file a CSSA file maybe a javascript file so we can do that by typing in the touch command 43 00:02:45,790 --> 00:02:50,440 and then typing in the file that we want to create and be sure that you have the extension of what we're 44 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,380 creating here so we're adding an HMO file here. 45 00:02:53,380 --> 00:03:00,790 Go ahead and hit enter and you can see right here in the Finder that is created the h file for us. 46 00:03:00,790 --> 00:03:03,370 Now check this out with this touch command. 47 00:03:03,490 --> 00:03:06,670 You can actually create multiple files as well. 48 00:03:06,670 --> 00:03:13,940 So let's right touch and let's say that we need a CSSA file and javascript file. 49 00:03:14,050 --> 00:03:16,330 So we'll put a style success in a manger. 50 00:03:16,420 --> 00:03:22,810 And I'm going to go ahead and click enter and you can see that it's created both files for us. 51 00:03:22,810 --> 00:03:25,860 Now let's take this up just a notch here. 52 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,720 Say that we need a directory to hold all of our services. 53 00:03:30,850 --> 00:03:38,340 So to do that and let's use the make directory command and we're going to call this folder services. 54 00:03:38,870 --> 00:03:39,530 OK. 55 00:03:39,850 --> 00:03:45,430 And you can see that the folders appeared here and then we can go ahead and simply navigate into this 56 00:03:45,430 --> 00:03:46,170 folder. 57 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:52,820 And let's go ahead and create we'll just call this Services digest. 58 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:53,220 OK. 59 00:03:53,230 --> 00:03:56,600 And in the Finder I'm going to click on it here so we have a visual of what's happening. 60 00:03:56,770 --> 00:04:01,260 I'm going to press enter in my terminal and it's just created the file for us. 61 00:04:01,510 --> 00:04:06,400 So we have just covered how to create directories and how to create files. 62 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,320 And this is going to be very very important for you to know. 63 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:14,230 You're going to use this all the time especially when you're setting up brand new projects or you need 64 00:04:14,230 --> 00:04:19,030 to quickly add files or directories to existing projects that you're working on. 65 00:04:19,060 --> 00:04:21,660 So that is a wrap for this lesson. 66 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:22,480 Let's move on.