Ubuntu Terminal

You can easily restart your PC using the graphical user interface. But, it will be nice to know how to restart your Ubuntu PC using the terminal. You have to use the reboot command to restart your PC. Open your terminal. You can launch the terminal easily with the keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+T. Type in the…

Everyone knows how to turn off your PC using the graphical user interface. In this blog post, let’s check how to power off your PC using Ubuntu terminal. You can make use of the command poweroff for this purpose. Launch your terminal using the keyboard shortcut ctrl + alt + T. Then just execute the…

We always want to ping a host on local network or on the internet to check the availability. In this article, let’s check how to do ping on Ubuntu using the terminal. The ping command can be used for this purpose. You can use the command as given below. Here, Google is the host. I…

We use Terminal for various purposes. As a result we type in a lot of commands. It’s very common that we forget some of the commands we have used. In this article, let’s see how to show history of commands used in your terminal. The history command can be used for this purpose. Open the…

Yes, we all know how to create a folder using graphical user interface. In this blog post, let’s see how to create a folder using Ubuntu terminal. The mkdir is a popular Linux command and it is the one we should use to create a folder. You can execute mkdir command as given below. Here…

Many of us love to do things more with the Terminal rather than using GUI. In this Ubuntu terminal tutorial, let’s check how to list all files in a folder. We use the ls command for this purpose. It’s a command line utility to list content of a directory. How to use ls command Open…

We know the Terminal is very powerful and you can a do a lot of stuff with commands. In this article, let’s check how to find folder path on Ubuntu using the Terminal. Navigate to your specific folder. Right click and launch the terminal by clicking on the Open in Terminal option. Now, you can…

Sometimes, we may want to check hardware details of our PC. In this blog post, I will show you an easy way to get hardware details of your Ubuntu PC using the terminal. Firstly, launch your terminal. You may use ctrl + alt + T keyboard shortcut to open the terminal. Now, execute the following…

Checking Ubuntu version is pretty easy with the Ubuntu Terminal. Open your terminal and use the following command. It will give the version details. It looks like as given below. NAME=”Ubuntu”VERSION=”20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)”ID=ubuntuID_LIKE=debianPRETTY_NAME=”Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS”VERSION_ID=”20.04″HOME_URL=”https://www.ubuntu.com/”SUPPORT_URL=”https://help.ubuntu.com/”BUG_REPORT_URL=”https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/”PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=”https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy”VERSION_CODENAME=focalUBUNTU_CODENAME=focal From that you can clearly understands the version of Ubuntu. In the above example it is Ubuntu 20.04 version….

Sometimes, we want to create simple text files with .txt extension to save data in text format. We can use Ubuntu terminal to create text files easily in Ubuntu. Navigate to where you want to create a text file. Right-click and choose the option Open in Terminal to open the terminal from the specified location….

Sometimes our terminal gets cluttered and we just want to clear it instead of closing and reopening the terminal. Clearing terminal in Ubuntu is pretty easy. There are multiple ways to clear the terminal. The easiest way to clear the terminal is by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + L. This makes the screen clear….