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 usually just a progam. You can open it via the utilities part of the apllications menu, or press Alt + F2 and type gnome-terminal.
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 ...
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?
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.
4 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.
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 window. In Windows, you can Ctrl+Break pretty much any terminal based process, but I can't figure out the way to do it on the Mac.
