6 dec. 2012 · 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 …

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 …

21 aug. 2018 · 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 …

29 nov. 2025 · 5 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. …

13 okt. 2017 · 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?

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 …

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 …

28 jun. 2018 · 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 …

11 dec. 2011 · You can copy the contents of a folder /source to another existing folder /dest with the command: cp -a /source/. /dest/ The -a option is an improved recursive option, that preserves all file …

8 jan. 2019 · Every new line means the start of a new command. In the terminal, when you press Enter, you get a prompt to run a new command. So, a new line needs to be "escaped". Typing \ followed by …