The terminal window is helpful to execute Ubuntu commands, scripts, or execute the applications. A terminal window opens the command-line tool to allow the user(s) to enter the commands, to do some operations. Usually, the user(s) use the Terminal window, to perform maintenance operations.
In this article, we are going to discuss the steps to open the Terminal window in Ubuntu 14.x Operating System.
Step 1. Login into the Ubuntu system using your user credentials.
Step 2. From Ubuntu Desktop, click on the Search icon which is on the top left corner. Ubuntu will display a search window.
Step 3. In the search window, type “terminal” in the search field. Ubuntu will display all the applications which are matched with the given application name under the Applications group in the search results.
Step 4. Click on the application “Terminal” which is under the Applications group. Ubuntu will open the Terminal window.
Step 5. Ubuntu will open a terminal window, with a shell command prompt to allow the users to type the commands or run the scripts to perform some kind of operations.
To close the terminal window, type the exit command at the command prompt, and the terminal window will be closed.
You can also close the terminal window, by clicking the “x” (close) icon on the terminal window.
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