How do I enter Commands in the Terminal Please HELP

[alexfish]

Can any One Show Me How To Enter Commands in the Ubuntu Terminal

I am Total Novice at This

The first line is very confusing ?

it Shows alexfish-ubuntu@not-win7-or-bing-desktop:~$

Screen shot attached



Hi all

[ SOLVED] Can any One Show Me How To Enter Commands in the Ubuntu Terminal

Thanks for All the input ,Interesting Reading / and fun to

Just in TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

[pwnst*r]

rofl.

[ubername]

alexfish-ubuntu@not-win7-or-bing-desktop:~$

is called the 'prompt'. It can be changed but basically it shows your username and the machine you are on (and the ~ means you are in your home folder). The $ is the end of the prompt. You type (or paste) commands there. Note - in gnome-terminal you can use ctl-shift-v to paste things

[wojox]

WTF? Terminal HowTo

[~sHyLoCk~]

yes "windows " | tr -d "\n"

[alexfish]

WTF? Terminal HowTo

To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

alexfish-ubuntu@not-win7-or-bing-desktop:~$ sudo gobbledegook blah_blah -w -t -f aWkward/ComBinationOf/mixedCase/underscores_strokes/and.dots
[sudo] password for alexfish-ubuntu:
sudo: gobbledegook: command not found
alexfish-ubuntu@not-win7-or-bing-desktop:~$

EH

[Psumi]

To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

alexfish-ubuntu@not-win7-or-bing-desktop:~$ sudo gobbledegook blah_blah -w -t -f aWkward/ComBinationOf/mixedCase/underscores_strokes/and.dots
[sudo] password for alexfish-ubuntu:
sudo: gobbledegook: command not found
alexfish-ubuntu@not-win7-or-bing-desktop:~$

EH

*facepalm* That was an obvious "example" and not a real command.

[pwnst*r]

[soni1770]

sudo ice-cream is my fav

[Bölvaður]

this is utterly useless, but I guess you are just trying to feel comfortable with entering commands.. so try these.

this is pretty much just: learn by example.

whoami
sudo su <and enter your password blindly>
whoami
exit
whoami

ps -e
ps -e | more
ps -e | less
ps -e | grep gnome
ps -e | grep gnome | head -3

ls
ls -a
ls -a | grep gnome
ls -a | grep g..me
ls -a | grep g.me
ls -a | grep ^[A-Z]
ls -a | grep ^[0-9]
ls -a | grep [0-9]$
ls -R | grep png$

man ls
man ps
man grep

like I said, there is no real life gain from this... well perhaps sometimes... specially if you are automating somethings by scripts.

commands are nothing more than


name_of_a_program -flag name/of/a/file/or-other-imput

ohh ok I'll show you some useful things.

firefox www.ubuntuforums.org
firefox www.ubuntuforums.org &

wget http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sandwich.png
eog sandwich.png 
rm sandwich.png
eog sandwich.png

well... the other stuff will change some things.