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- 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 The syntax is: mv (option) file1 ext file2 ext where “file1 ext” is the “old” name of the file, and “file2 ext
- 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 do I check which terminal I am using? - Ask Ubuntu
I have Ubuntu on my machine and I am running awesome window manager on top of it How do I check which terminal I am running? Is there a command for it?
- How to reinitialize a terminal window instead of closing it and . . .
When I make some changes to the shell bash behavior, such as setting up an alias, is there a quick command to reinitialize the terminal window instead of closing and opening a new window?
- Is there a command to list all users? Also to add, delete, modify users . . .
I need a command to list all users as well as commands to add, delete and modify users from terminal - any commands that could help in administrating user accounts easily by terminal
- What does ` gt; gt;` mean in terminal command? - Super User
I came across a command just now given below - $ echo 'eval "$(jenv init -)"' >> ~ bash_profile From what i can guess, it is probably used for committing the changes in bash_profile but what exactly is it used for?
- How to run Terminal as root? - Ask Ubuntu
The graphical root terminal job will be both unsuspended and disowned by the non-root terminal, automatically In short: sudo -H gnome-terminal ^Z exit But suppose you wanted to keep using the original, non-root terminal too Then you could run bg N, where N is the graphical root terminal's job number, to resume the job in the background
- What commands can I use to reset and clear my terminal?
I have been using the command: reset to clear my terminal Although I am pretty sure this is not what I should be doing Reset, as the name suggests, resets your entire terminal (changes lots of
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