Introduction to the Terminal¶

Familiarity with and mastery of the command-line terminal is important for developers at all skill levels.

You can run the shell commands in this notebook, but we recommend that you open a terminal and type the shell commands directly.

Start a New Terminal¶

In the notebook file tree, look for the buttons on the upper right and click New > Terminal.

Navigate Folders¶

List files in this folder.

List files with more information.

Show help for the ls command.

Reveal current folder.

Change to root folder.

Autocomplete folder names.

Run Commands¶

Save text to a file.

Append text to a file.

Show command history.

Save command history to a file.

Edit Files¶

Though it has a steep learning curve, we strongly recommend learning a powerful editor called Vim.

Here is a good beginner's tutorial.

Install Packages¶

Each Linux distribution has its own package manager. Fedora uses the dnf package manager.

Manage Processes¶

You can suspend, resume and stop processes that are taking too long.

Learn Shortcuts¶

If you are using the terminal (and not running commands in this notebook), you can take advantage of time-saving keyboard shortcuts.

Learn Together¶

We often find that people teach each other and learn cool tricks when working together in the same terminal.

• Option 1: Use tmux.
• Option 2: Share the link to a terminal session on CrossCompute.