- 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
- What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
4 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
- 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
- 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?
- macos - How to stop a process in Terminal - Super User
Closed 15 years ago Possible Duplicate: Ending a process in unix instead of interrupting it When I task in Terminal, such as ping blah com, how do I then stop this task (other than closing the Terminal window In Windows, you can Ctrl+Break pretty much any terminal based process, but I can't figure out the way to do it on the Mac
- 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
- command line - How to copy files via terminal? - Ask Ubuntu
How to copy files via terminal? Ask Question Asked 13 years, 2 months ago Modified 9 years, 6 months ago
- What is the difference between Terminal, Console, Shell, and Command . . .
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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