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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 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 to rename a file in Terminal? - Ask Ubuntu
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- How to delete a non-empty directory in Terminal? - Ask Ubuntu
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- 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?
- 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?
- How can I copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a . . .
1365 I am trying to copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a different directory using terminal Would somebody be able to provide me an example of the command line syntax required to achieve 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 determine the total size of a directory (folder) from the . . .
Is there a simple command to display the total aggregate size (disk usage) of all files in a directory (folder)? I have tried these, and they don't do what I want: ls -l, which only displays the s
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