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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 usually 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
How to rename a file in Terminal? [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 12 years, 7 months ago Modified 3 years, 5 months ago
- 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?
- What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
3 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
- How to unzip a zip file from the Terminal? - Ask Ubuntu
Just downloaded a zip file from the internet I want to use the terminal to unzip the file What is the correct way to do this?
- 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
- How do I navigate up one directory from the terminal?
I can navigate down in directory using cd in the terminal How do I navigate back up if I go too far?
- What does ` gt; gt;` mean in terminal command? - Super User
What happens in the specific case of echo? In your specific case, the echo "…" command outputs its input arguments to “stdout”, which is the so-called “standard output descriptor” The input arguments to echo are followed by a newline (\n), so that you get a line break Here, a “standard output descriptor” is nothing more than an output stream that is shown in your shell when you
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