- How to rename a file in Terminal? - Ask Ubuntu
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 interpreted by the filesystem as moving it from one name to another The syntax is: mv (option) file1 ext file2 ext where “file1 ext” is the “old” name of the file, and “file2 ext
- 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
- What does ` gt; gt;` mean in terminal command? - Super User
I came across a command just now given below - $ echo 'eval "$(jenv init -)"' >> ~ bash_profile From what i can guess, it is probably used for committing the changes in bash_profile but what exactly is it used for?
- 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 Terminal, Console, Shell, and Command . . .
A terminal emulator plus the Unix tty semantics make up the full package of a Unix terminal that a program like bash normally runs on Command line is a style of user interface, where you type something, then press return to make something happen
- 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
- What is the difference between terminal and bash? - Super User
The terminal provides a mechanism for entering commands You run a command processor, or shell, on top of that - bash, fish, csh or others This is what actually turns the text that is typed into the terminal into instructions that the computer acts on Most shells allow scripting, and you'd see a very different syntax between say bash or csh
- terminal - What is the difference between rm -r and rm -f? - Super User
What do you mean they give the same result? rm -r emptydir removes that directory, rm -f emptydir does not These are two completely different command line options, each doing whatever its documentation says is doing
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