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.
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Some types of terminal emulators include: GUI applications running in the X Window System: Xterm, Gnome Terminal, Konsole, Terminator, etc. Screen and tmux, which provides a layer of isolation between a program and another terminal Ssh, which connects a terminal on one machine with programs on another machine Expect, for scripting terminal ...
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how to display the actual network traffic (wireless) in a terminal? Additionally: Is it possible to add this info to the chart of top?
Possible Duplicate: What is a terminal and how do I open and use it? How do I access the Terminal? I just got ubuntu running on my computer and now I am ready to write a program...but I can't figure out how to open a command terminal. I guess I don't know where to find which version I am running either. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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I can navigate down in directory using cd in the terminal. How do I navigate back up if I go too far?
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?
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How to make a file (e.g. a .sh script) executable, so it can be run from a terminal Ask Question Asked 13 years, 4 months ago Modified 1 month ago
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?
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The default terminal emulator on Ubuntu is the GNOME Terminal. It's located at /usr/bin/gnome-terminal and can be run with the gnome-terminal command. What You Really Want What you probably want is a shell running as root, as though it were produced from a root login (for example, with all the environment variables set for root rather than for your user). Assuming that's what you want, as ...
Open Terminal At the prompt enter the following- sudo scutil --set HostName [new name] Open a new Terminal window to confirm the new name was accepted. If the name is not to my liking I proceed with the above before binding it to Active Domain.
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What does the @ mean on the output of "ls" on OS X' terminal? Ask Question Asked 15 years, 10 months ago Modified 3 years, 3 months ago
What does the @ mean on the output of "ls" on OS X' terminal?
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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?
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