Ubuntu – How to open a terminal?

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What is a terminal and how do I open and use it?
How do I access the Terminal?

I just got ubuntu running on my computer and now I am ready to write a program…but I can't figure out how to open a command terminal. I guess I don't know where to find which version I am running either. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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You can either:

Open the Dash by clicking the Ubuntu icon in the upper-left, type "terminal", and select the Terminal application from the results that appear.
Hit the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Alt+T.

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You can pipe your output to the tee program (description):

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This will show the ouput on the terminal, but also write it to the file my_program.log

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Install your program and then before you use a search tool like locate, you must run

sudo updatedb

to refresh the database or you will not find your just installed program with locate.

Now you will usually be able to use the name of the program you just installed (e.g. shutter) and run locate shutter, for example, to find all the installed shutter files. To specifically find all the executables related to shutter in bin, run

locate shutter | grep bin

Alternatively, to quickly find the locations of the main shutter executable, run which shutter and for a listing of filesystem locations, run whereis shutter.

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