The terminal is the program that lets users access an OS’s Command Line Interface (CLI).
Launching a terminal on Mac
The terminal program on Macs is simply called “Terminal”. You can open it in two ways:
Finder → Applications → Utilities → Terminal
Press Command+Spacebar. Type “terminal” in the Spotlight Search popup and you will see an option to open the Terminal.
CMD+Spacebar is a great way to open apps quickly on Mac.
You may wish to drag the Terminal application to your Dock at the bottom.
The terminal on Mac will look something like this.
Ubuntu (on Windows)
Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Windows has several terminal programs. Windows PowerShell and Command Prompt are for interacting with Windows CLI directly. We want to open an Ubuntu terminal for interacting with the Ubuntu OS you installed in the previous lab.
This is PowerShell (for talking to Windows) and is not what we want.
Click the dropdown to the PowerShell tab. You should see an option for Ubuntu. Select it. After a moment, you should see the Ubuntu Terminal that looks like this: