You don’t need to use any GUI applications to show all your users on your system . You can do it via your terminal command-line application. You can list all system generated and human created or normal Linux users via the below commands. Lots of options are available. Just try all commands in your terminal and find the difference. If any other options available please mention in comments.
Normally in terminal when you run a command, it prints and shows the command output directly in the terminal. If you want to store that output in a external text file, then you can also do it in bash based terminals. Ex:Ubuntu. It redirect the output and saves in a text file. It will help to view the output at later. In this article we will see the all available methods to print the terminal output to a file.
In Ubuntu you can easily view the total size of a directory or folder from the terminal command line tool. And the good part is you don’t need any fancy GUI apps for this. You can view this via the du command. du is the short form of disk usage. In this article we will see how to find the size of a particular folder and all folders on your system from your terminal application.
Cool Retro Term is a free and open source terminal emulator for Linux and MacOS. It mimics the old cathode tube monitor screen in look and feel. It is lightweight and customizable terminal emulator. It is qt based and uses QML port of qtermwidget. You can change the colors, fonts, and effects using the setting menu. It is really cool and fun terminal. It comes with Monochrome green, green scanlines, pixelated, apple II, IBM DOS and IBM 3278 themes.
Guake is a free and open source terminal emulator for Linux. It is mainly inspired by the Quake game terminal. You can show and hide Guake terminal using a single key F12 (you can change this) or control via your panel or Top bar.It is a developer friendly terminal. It will work smoothly with the Gnome desktop environment. It comes with multi-monitor and multiple named tabs support, split terminal functionality, save your current session and restore, transparency support. If you find any file name in your terminal output, then you can open it to your favorite text editor by clicking on it. It comes with more than 130 color themes. You can set terminal background and foreground color on per tab basis. It is released under GNU General Public License v2.0.
Moon Buggy is a very old classic terminal based Ascii game by Jochen Voss. It is based on old Moon Patrol (1982) arcade game. In Moon Buggy you need to drive a car across the moon’s dangerous craters by jumping over them. It is a easy to play but very addictive game. You just need to jump and fire with two key controls. Please check the game controls
Controls:
y,SPC,RET:start game
SPC,j:jump
a,l:fire
q,n:abort game
q:quit
c:show copyright
w:show warranty
s:show scores
r,C-l:redraw
Bashtop is a free and open source resource monitor for Linux. Using this you can monitor your system and it shows usage and stats of your processor, network, processes, memory and disks. It comes with easy to use menu and responsive keys selection. You can filter the processes and scale UI in bashtop. It also supports SIGTERM, SIGKILL and SIGINT. It is released under open source Apache License 2.0 license. You can also switch between sorting options easily in bashtop. It support themes. This is very cool and useful command line application for terminal lovers.
Electerm is a free and open source Terminal, ssh, sftp client for Linux, MacOS and Windows. You can use this as a terminal app, File manager, ssh client and sftp client. It is released under MIT license and it is…
Kitty is a free open source GPU based terminal emulator for Linux and MacOS. It uses lower system resources and threaded rendering to run kitty faster. It comes with mouse , uni-code, true-color and focus tracking support. It also comes with extensions support. Using this you can enable some advanced features in your kitty terminal. You can tile multiple kitty terminal windows side by side. It also comes with graphics, scripts, startup sessions and shell prompt support.
Terminal is a powerful tool in any Linux OS with lots of uses. You can also play games in your terminal. Now we are going to see some best Linux command line terminal games on your Ubuntu. Best Linux Command…