Launch the terminal

- [Instructor] The Raspberry Pi terminal is the gateway to an application called a shell or command line interpreter. Before graphical user interfaces were the norm, most users interacted with computers through a shell. In general, the terminal will be most useful to more advanced users, so if you don't need it right away, feel free to come back to this chapter anytime. The shell lets you run any applications on your Raspberry Pi, including graphical applications, but you'll primarily use it to run applications that have a text only interface. This can include programs that run, emit some output, and terminate, such as the LS command that lists directory contents. But this can also include interactive programs like a text editor, which run until you explicitly exit the program. Let's have a look at how you start the terminal. To launch the terminal, you can use this icon here, or you can click the Raspberry Pi icon, choose accessories, and then click terminal. The terminal will open…