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The Terminal is a way to control your computer using just text. It lets you run commands far more powerful than anything a GUI can do for you.
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Hi, I'm Jay McGavren, a web developer and
instructor at Treehouse.
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And I'm here to introduce
you to the terminal.
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The terminal is a way to control
your computer using just text.
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The graphical user interfaces, or GUIs,
you see on desktop, and mobile apps, and
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websites have their place.
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You can easily see what options
are available to you and
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click on the one you want.
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But have you ever tried to describe to
someone how to do something using a GUI,
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especially if it's buried
under three levels of menus?
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It takes a long time.
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Have you ever tried to do
a task repeatedly using a GUI,
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