Friday, February 17, 2012

Apps - Terminal Emulator

I was pretty fired up when I found this Better Terminal Emulator Pro.
A terminal emulator allows you to use Linux commands from command line using the bash shell

Seems that it was modified from the android store but does a pretty decent job.

Some comments:

Keyboard

A lot of standard keys are not available on the Fire, like the control key, pipe | , arrows, etc. There are some workarounds:

You tap once on the screen for the [Ctrl] key. The keyboard must be invoked for this to work.

"pipe" | is control-6