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- What is a terminal and how do I open and use it? - Ask Ubuntu
A Terminal is your interface to the underlying operating system via a shell, usually bash It is a command line Back in the day, a Terminal was a screen+keyboard that was connected to a server Today, it is usally just a progam You can open it via the utilities part of the apllications menu, or press Alt+F2 and type gnome-terminal
- How to rename a file in Terminal? - Ask Ubuntu
A simple way to rename files and folders is with the mv command (shortened from “move”) Its primary purpose is moving files and folders, but it can also rename them since the act of renaming a file is interpreted by the filesystem as moving it from one name to another
- How to run Terminal as root? - Ask Ubuntu
Run sudo -H gnome-terminal from the original non-root graphical terminal Enter your password as prompted by sudo The graphical terminal will start Still in the non-root terminal, press Ctrl+Z to suspend the root terminal While the root terminal is suspended, you can't use it; its interface will not respond to your actions
- bash - What does ` gt; gt;` mean in terminal command? - Super User
An example On Ubuntu 18 04 I could type "apt search rust >> x" The "apt search rust" part searches available packages for the term rust and then sends this to standard out (normally the terminal in this case) However the ">> x" says to redirect the output to the end of file "x" If I just wanted to replace the file, I would only need a single
- What is the difference between Terminal, Console, Shell, and Command . . .
(2) A terminal window a k a terminal emulator In Linux, a terminal window is the emulation of a console, contained in a GUI window It is the CLI you type your text in, and this input is read by the shell you're using There are many types of shells (e g bash, dash, ksh88) and terminals (e g konsole, gnome)
- What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
A Terminal is a text-based interface (possibly to a shell) The difference between console and shell is one I don't yet grasp, but I can tell you how a terminal is different from a shell The terminal is (according to Wikipedia) "a serial computer interface for text entry and display Information is presented as an array of pre-selected formed
- What is the difference between terminal and bash? - Super User
The terminal provides a mechanism for entering commands You run a command processor, or shell, on top of that - bash, fish, csh or others This is what actually turns the text that is typed into the terminal into instructions that the computer acts on Most shells allow scripting, and you'd see a very different syntax between say bash or csh
- How do I determine the total size of a directory (folder) from the . . .
There is a useful option to du called the --apparent-size It can be used to find the actual size of a file or directory (as opposed to its footprint on the disk) eg, a text file with just 4 characters will occupy about 6 bytes, but will still show up as taking up ~4K in a regular du -sh output
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