Creating a Folder - macOS Terminal

00:00 The first task—or basically, it’s a second task now, because you, you already, or the third one, you already opened the terminal— Oh my god, wow— You showed me the current— Like, I’m crushing this.

00:10 And you showed where you are. So now I want you to create a folder named pb_terminal. You can create it wherever you want. I’ll just stick to where I am.

00:21 Okay, so I make this folder by typing the command mkdir, which stands for make directory. And then I put in a space and then type whatever I want to name the folder.

00:32 So in this case, your task was to name it pb_terminal. So I’ll just do this and press Enter again. And then I created the folder. Perfect.

00:42 So if I—like, now we have an underscore (_) in the name. If we wouldn’t have a underscore but a space, you then would put it in quotes, similar like a string in Python, right?

00:51 Yeah. I’d have to go like this. I’d have to say "pb terminal" like that. Exactly. But I’m not going to make this folder now. Yeah. Okay. So that’s a good thing to remember—that it’s basically like a chain of commands there, so you need to have quotes if there are spaces in it.

01:09 But I think, also, similar like with variables in Python, you can think of the names of folders. You save yourself headache if you don’t put spaces in there, which I think is a good idea with folder names.

01:24 You don’t want me to prove that I actually created this folder? You just believe me? Well, I believe you, I mean, would there come an error, or how would you prove to me that you created this folder?

01:33 Like, I just believed you, but like I can like, can see you proving it to me.