Terminal

Terminal is what allows us to interface with the computer. When you open a terminal program on Mac or Linux however you are actually opening a terminal emulator. The reason for this is that you are opening a terminal window, in a window system. This program is emulating a terminal for you to work on inside a nice GUI.

This is an example of a terminal emulator running on a mac

• Home Page
• Getting Started
• Bash
  • Terminal
• The Filesystem
  • Navigation
  • Creating Files
  • Home Directory and Hidden Files
  • File Types
  • Different Users
  • File Permissions
• User Environment
  • Environmental Variables
  • .bashrc
• Advanced Bash
  • Scripts
  • I/O Redirection
  • Pipes
• The Unix System
  • Processes
  • Run Levels
  • init
  • Recurring Processes
• More Advanced Bash
  • Conditional Statements
  • Loops
  • Avoiding Common Mistakes

• Interactive Games
  • File Permissions Game