Terminal windows are usually pretty boring, but you can make them more personal by adding a welcome message and  changing some colors.

To do so, open your terminal under Applications –> Utilities.

Then type : open -e ~/.profile (The file will open in the graphic text editor)

Go to the end of the file and add the red text:

echo -n “Current Time: “ (To Show The Current Time)
date

echo “Disk Usage:” (To Show the Disk Usage)
df -h

If you use the top command in Linux you are going to LOVE htop….

Htop is an ncursed-based process viewer similar to top, but it allows to scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and their full command lines.  Tasks related to proccesses (killing, renicing) can be done without entering their PIDs.

To Install Htop on Ubuntu Linux Just open terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install htop

To do just that you need to create SSH Key Pair

1. we need to use ssh-agent to create an SSH key pair.

To do that run this command: ssh-keygen -t rsa

When prompted for a password, choose something long and secure.

After few seconds  you should see a message like:

Your identification has been saved in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.

Your public key has been saved in ~.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Now we need to add the public key (id_rsa.pub) to our web server. You can head in to the web server via FTP and cut and paste the info into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

Or The terminal way, execute this line, substituting your login info:

So, a friend asked me who come my terminal is full of colors and he have one color.

To make your files list in color just type ls -G, or make ‘ls’  show colors by default, this is how:

Video Version:

Text Version:

Terminal Tetris is actually part of the Gnu Emacs and is something you should able to do on any unix system that has Emacs on it.

I attached text and video instructions.

To start it all you have to do is:

1. Open Terminal

2. type: “emacs” and wait for the emacs screen to load

3. hit “esc” then type “x”

4. type “tetris” (lowercase letters)

5.Enter

A Tetris game will load in the window and you can play it by using the arrow keys & space to control the falling blocks.