Haiku Terminal

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Is the Haiku terminal it’s own thing or is it a replication of the linux/unix terminal? and where would one learn it’s commands?

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Terminal is a native Haiku app.

There’s a guide for it at:

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so it’s just the unix/linux terminal and uses the same commands?

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Found a bug. The app menu doesn’t scroll when it goes off the edge of the screen.

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so, despite being the BASH shell used in linux, in haiku it seems to have it’s own commands.

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in any case, I hope Haiku doesn’t need the terminal like Linux does.

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Yes, Haiku has a lot of own specific commands, tools.

As for me, Terminal is just a help in case.

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Well, that’s gonna depend on what you’re doing on it. :slight_smile:

Around half my time on Haiku is in the Terminal, mostly scripting or using ssh to connect to servers.

I suspect that most Haiku users, as with Mac and Windows users, rarely use the terminal at all and may not even know it’s there.

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I believe Haiku uses bash by default in terminal. Personally, I use zsh with oh my zsh by default. You can install your favorite shell and go to /etc/passwd and set your shell there. Hmm that would be a good little project, write a ‘csh’ app/script for haiku.