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diff --git a/source/terminal.markdown b/source/terminal.markdown deleted file mode 100644 index 2e2e674..0000000 --- a/source/terminal.markdown +++ /dev/null @@ -1,120 +0,0 @@ -% Terminal -% -% - -About -===== - -Terminal is a full-screen text mode program that provides a Command-Line -Interface (CLI) to the software on a Linux system, such as the Fedora -Linux that Sugar on the XO is based on. Users type (sometimes cryptic) -commands to perform file management, system administration, or in fact -almost anything that can be done within Linux that does not involve -graphics or video. - -For example, typing **pwd** (Print name of current/Working Directory) at -the command line in the home directory gives that location as -/home/olpc, and typing **ls** at the command line in /home/olpc in a -fresh installation of Sugar 0.94.1 in English results in this listing of -its contents. - -Where to get Terminal -===================== - -Terminal is provided with Sugar on every XO. However, by default it is -not selected for display in the Home view as a Favorite. - -- To select Terminal as a Favorite, go to Home view, then click the - List view icon. Type Te into the search box. Click the star next to - Terminal. When you switch back to the ring of icons in Home view, - Terminal will be visible. - -- Alternatively, you can leave Terminal unselected, and start it from - list view by clicking its icon or selecting Start from its hover - menu. - -If for some reason Terminal is not installed, it can be downloaded from -its [Activity -page](http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4043) - -Using -===== - -- Type commands with options that modify their effects and arguments, - usually file names or other indications of where to get input and - where to put output. - -Examples: pwd and ls, as shown above - -- Chain programs together, so that the following program processes the - output of the earlier program. - -<!-- --> - - ls | grep "Sugar" - -Get a listing of the current directory, but show only lines where the -file or directory name includes the text "Sugar". The | symbol, read -pipe, represents the data link between the programs. - -- Get information on programs. For example, many commands respond to - the -h or --help options with a concise summary. - -<!-- --> - - grep -h - Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... - Try `grep --help' for more information. - -The man and info utilities are unfortunately not available on XOs, but -will undoubtedly be included in Sugar whenever the XO of that time is -capacious enough for all of the manual and information pages in all of -the supported languages. - -The Toolbars -============ - -- Activity: Name this session, Exit -- Edit (scissors icon) Copy and Paste -- View (eye icon) Increase or Decrease font size; Full Screen -- Tabs: Open new tab; Close current tab; Next tab; Previous tab - -Learning with Terminal -====================== - -Terminal is essential to learning advanced Linux functions, such as -system administration, compiling software, and many other such topics. - -Extending Terminal -================== - -Users have the option of installing text-mode software that works in a -terminal window. Examples include text editors such as pico, or file -managers such as Midnight Commander. MC simplifies many command line -activities for the user, providing equivalents to many command in menus -and text windows. To install mc, enter - - yum install mc - -This invokes the Yellow Dog Update Manager to install the Red Hat/Fedora -package for mc, including the program, documentation, and other files. -Then the user can type mc at the command line and get a two-panel -display of files in the same or different directories, together with -function buttons and menus for creating and deleting directories, moving -or copying files, viewing or editing files, changing file permissions, -and much more. - -See the FLOSS Manuals manuals - -- [Terminal](http://en.flossmanuals.net/terminal/) about the Sugar - Terminal activity -- [Introduction to the Command - Line](http://en.flossmanuals.net/command-line/) for a user's - tutorial on command line functions - -Credits -======= - -- Sayamindu -- Wadeb -- Activity Team |