8.1.3 Working on Terminal Screen

Next, let’s see exactly where the current position is on the Terminal screen. If you want to know the current directory location on Linux, use “pwd” command.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ pwd

/home/pi

The above example shows that when you run the “pwd” command, it tells that “/home/pi” is the current directory location. “~” is displayed on the screen, but in reality, it means “/home/pi”. The current directory location specified in the home directory for the first time will be changed as user move the user’s working directory to another directory. Then, the position displayed on the screen is changed accordingly.

8.1.2 Configuration of Terminal Screen

The Terminal screen provided in the Pi system has certain rules. First, let’s look at the information displayed on the Terminal screen.

If you connect to the system at first and log on to “pi” account, the parts as below appears on the Terminal screen.

8.1 Terminal program

8.1.1 How to Start Terminal Program

When you issue commands to the system to do the desired work on the Raspberry Pi system, you uses the Terminal screen. Although the Raspberry Pi system supports the window and can do some work in the window, most work still needs to be done manually by typing the command on the Terminal program screen.

There are several ways to start a Terminal program on the Raspberry Pi system. You can start the Terminal program from the local console, start the Terminal program from the remote connection, or start the Terminal program from the window.

Chapter 8 Terminal and Shell Program

Chapter’s Main Topics

When you issue a command to the system to do desired work on the Raspberry Pi system, in most cases, you use the Shell command on the Terminal screen. This chapter describes how to use the Terminal program and the basic method to use the Shell command.

It includes descriptions on the following topics:
■ Terminal program

■ Shell program