Since I use WSL(Windows subsystem for Linux), this command for creating symlinks is especially helpful.
ln -s <path-to-original-directory> <path-of-symlink-directory>
ln -s /mnt/c/dev ~/win_dev
The command above will create a symlink to the dev directory in my C: drive to a directory named win_dev. The -s tag signifies that this is a symlink and -symlink can be used instead (but why type more when you can achieve the same result with two keystrokes 🤷♂️).
By the way the /mnt/c part is the way windows recommends sharing between WSL and windows.
To delete the symlink, just removing the newly created directory works fine using rm
rm <path-to-symlink>
rm ~/win_dev
A very useful command line tool similar to man or -h but shows basic usage examples in a concise manner
brew install tldr
tldr zip
Basic functionality of zipping up multiple files or directories
// This will create a zip file named project1.zip in the current directory, containing all the files with the .hdl extension. (.hdl was used for a coursera course called nand2tetris)
zip project1.zip *.hdl
// Adding -r will recursively search through directories as well.
zip -r project1.zip *.hdl
Using tldr for other use cases will be of great help.
There are two packages with the name rename. perl-rename and rename on util-linux. It can be quite confusing since both packages use the same command.
FYI, tldr rename is the util-linux version, and tldr perl-rename or tldr file-rename is the other version.
The following is applicable to the perl version.
rename [expression] [files]
# add prefix_ to all files within the current dir
rename 's/^/prefix_' *
# add an extension to all files
rename 's/$/.c' *
# the option -n can be used to see how the command will turn out without actually executing the command.