How to Use the Terminal to Access Notebook Machines

Notebooks are a web-based Jupyter IDE with shared persistent storage for long-term development and inter-notebook collaboration, backed by accelerated compute.

For notebooks, the terminal has root access to the underlying machine.

Gaining Terminal Access in Notebooks

To open a terminal, use the Terminal icon in the sidebar. You should have your notebook in a Running state.

To create a new terminal instance, use the + button in the left sidebar.

There is no limit on the number of terminal windows that may run simultaneously.

Using Bash in Your Terminal

To use bash, enter the following command in the default shell:

bash