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.
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Some types of terminal emulators include: GUI applications running in the X Window System: Xterm, Gnome Terminal, Konsole, Terminator, etc. Screen and tmux, which provides a layer of isolation between a program and another terminal Ssh, which connects a terminal on one machine with programs on another machine Expect, for scripting terminal ...
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Just downloaded a .zip file from the internet. I want to use the terminal to unzip the file. What is the correct way to do this?
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how to display the actual network traffic (wireless) in a terminal? Additionally: Is it possible to add this info to the chart of top?