Learning Node.js Development

Working on commands

The first command we'll run from the Terminal is going to check if we have an existing SSH key. Now if you don't, that's fine. We'll go ahead and create one. If you do or you're not sure you do, you can run the following command to confirm whether or not you have one: ls with the al flag. This is going to print all the files in a given directory, and the directory where SSH keys are stored by default on your machine is going to be at the user directory, which you can use (~) as a shortcut for /.ssh:

ls -al ~/.ssh

When you run the command, you'll see all of the contents inside of that SSH directory:

In this case I've deleted ...