The du command is verbose and confusing if you run it without options. Follow the instructions below to install Cmder.Useful commands and flags that we get tired of looking up. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout, looking sexy from the start. Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice and efficient console emulators on Windows. We’ll not be using windows’ default terminal (command prompt) but a terminal tool called cmder (commander). But in recent times, developers have contributed to developing terminal tools to aid windows users and developers complete their computational and development task with ease. Windows terminals have proven to be insufficient as it is very inefficient and slow in accomplishing some computational and development task. But for some windows users, it’s a big pool of confusion and fear. But below is just a glance of what a linux terminal looks like.įor the unix and linux users, a terminal is no news because most of the operations on these operating systems require the use of terminals. Since this tutorial is actually not dedicated to the deep stuffs about the terminal, we’ll not go deep into it. That same task (shutdown) could be carried out with the terminal but within a short amount of time.

Using the normal way, a user would click a few buttons in order to achieve that.

Let us take for instance, a shutdown operation. Unlike the normal GUI (Graphical User Interface) where the mouse is used to click buttons and other graphical elements in order to issue commands, we have another interface called the CLI (short for Command-Line Interface) of which the terminal happens to fall under, and it is through the terminal that commands are written to give out a task. The terminal is actually an interface where instructions known as commands could be given to the computer to carry out. From experience, I can tell that about 90% of learners who begin their way into the development world or into computing often know nothing about the terminal and often get confused when anything about it is mentioned.

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