Aug 4, 2014 · A Terminal is a program that runs a Shell. In the past it was a physical device (before terminals were monitors with keyboards, they were teletypes) and then its concept was transferred …

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 connected to a …

Mar 8, 2012 · The terminal emulator (often just called terminal) is "just the window", yes. It runs a text based program, which by default is your login shell (which is bash in Ubuntu). When you type …

Feb 28, 2015 · 695 I read that terminal is nothing but shell, and Unix provides different flavors of shells: Bourne shell (sh) C shell (csh) TC shell (tcsh) Korn shell (ksh) Bourne Again shell (bash) Questions: …

The default terminal emulator on Ubuntu is the GNOME Terminal. It's located at /usr/bin/gnome-terminal and can be run with the gnome-terminal command. What You Really Want What you probably want …

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 opening a new …

Dec 30, 2010 · To close a terminal window you can use the exit command . Alternatively you can use the shortcut ctrl + shift + w to close a terminal tab and ctrl + shift + q to close the entire terminal …

Save all the terminal output to a file This answer uses a little known command called script which saves all your shell's output to a text file until you type exit. The command output still appears on your …

Nov 30, 2016 · Let's say, I opened a terminal and entered / executed some shell commands. But I didn't invoke explicitly Bash or any other shell. What shell was used by default?

However, if I close the terminal window, it kills the script. Is there something I can do (a keyboard combination), that is analogous to closing the terminal window, without actually closing the terminal …