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  1. What is a terminal and how do I open and use it? - Ask Ubuntu

    Dec 6, 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 …

  2. How to rename a file in Terminal? - Ask Ubuntu

    How to rename a file in Terminal? [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 12 years, 3 months ago Modified 3 years, 1 month ago

  3. How to delete a non-empty directory in Terminal? - Ask Ubuntu

    Nov 16, 2012 · How to delete a non-empty directory in Terminal? Ask Question Asked 12 years, 8 months ago Modified 7 years, 6 months ago

  4. How to reinitialize a terminal window instead of closing it and ...

    Aug 21, 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 …

  5. How do I check which terminal I am using? - Ask Ubuntu

    Jun 23, 2015 · 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?

  6. How do I navigate up one directory from the terminal?

    Nov 28, 2015 · I can navigate down in directory using cd in the terminal. How do I navigate back up if I go too far?

  7. 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 …

  8. How can I copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a ...

    Dec 11, 2011 · 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 …

  9. How to open a PDF file from terminal? - Ask Ubuntu

    May 17, 2011 · I used to work on the Mac terminal before and I used: open file2open.pdf and the PDF file would be opened on preview or whatever my default viewer was. When I use it in the …

  10. How do I install a .deb file via the command line? - Ask Ubuntu

    May 6, 2011 · With modern apt I would recommend doing sudo apt install ./package.deb instead. This allows automatically installing all the dependencies and it does all the extra sanity checks …