Terminal

The Terminal is a console emulator program that lets you interface with all of the Servers in the game. The Terminal can be accessed by clicking the 'Terminal' tab on the navigation menu on the left-hand side of the game (You may need to expand the 'Hacking' header in order to see the 'Terminal' tab). Alternatively, the keyboard shortcut Alt + t can be used to open the Terminal.

alias
Create or display aliases. An alias enables a replacement of a word with another string. It can be used to abbreviate a commonly used command, or commonly used parts of a command. The NAME of an alias defines the word that will be replaced, while the VALUE defines what it will be replaced by. For example, you could create the alias 'nuke' for the Terminal command 'run NUKE.exe' using the following:

Then, to run the NUKE.exe program you would just have to enter 'nuke' in Terminal rather than the full command. It is important to note that 'default' aliases will only be substituted for the first word of a Terminal command. For example, if the following alias was set:

and then you tried to run the following terminal command:

This would fail because the worm alias is not the first word of a Terminal command. To allow an alias to be substituted anywhere in a Terminal command, rather than just the first word, you must set it to be a global alias using the -g flag:

Now, the 'worm' alias will be substituted anytime it shows up as an individual word in a Terminal command.

Entering just the command 'alias' without any arguments prints the list of all defined aliases in the reusable form 'alias NAME=VALUE' on the Terminal.

The 'unalias' command can be used to remove aliases.

analyze
Prints details and statistics about the current server. The information that is printed includes basic server details such as the hostname, whether the player has root access, what ports are opened/closed, and also hacking-related information such as an estimated chance to successfully hack, an estimate of how much money is available on the server, etc.

cat
Display message and literature files, which are files ending with the '.msg' or '.lit' extension. Example:

check
Print the logs of the script specified by the script name and arguments to the Terminal. Each argument must be separated by a space. Remember that a running script is uniquely identified both by its name and the arguments that are used to start it. So, if a script was ran with the following arguments:

Then to run the 'check' command on this script you would have to pass the same arguments in:

clear/cls
Clear the Terminal screen, deleting all of the text. Note that this does not delete the user's command history, so using the up and down arrow keys is still valid. Also note that this is permanent and there is no way to undo this. Both 'clear' and 'cls' do the same thing

connect
Connect to a remote server. The hostname or IP address of the remote server must be given as the argument to this command. Note that only servers that are immediately adjacent to the current server in the network can be connected to. To see which servers can be connected to, use the 'scan' command.

free
Display's the memory usage on the current machine. Print the amount of RAM that is available on the current server as well as how much of it is being used.

hack
Attempt to hack the current server. Requires root access in order to be run. See the wiki page for hacking mechanics

help
Display Terminal help information. Without arguments, 'help' prints a list of all valid Terminal commands and a brief description of their functionality. You can also pass the name of a Terminal command as an argument to 'help' to print more detailed information about the Terminal command. Examples:

home
Connect to your home computer. This will work no matter what server you are currently connected to.

hostname
Prints the hostname of the current server

ipconfig
Prints the IP address of the current server

kill
Kill the script specified by the script name and arguments. Each argument must be separated by a space. Remember that a running script is uniquely identified by both its name and the arguments that are used to start it. So, if a script was ran with the following arguments:

Then to kill this script the same arguments would have to be used:

Note that after issuing the 'kill' command for a script, it may take a while for the script to actually stop running. This will happen if the script is in the middle of a command such as grow or weaken that takes time to execute. The script will not be stopped/killed until after that time has elapsed.

killall
Kills all scripts on the current server. Note that after the 'kill' command is issued for a script, it may take a while for the script to actually stop running. This will happen if the script is in the middle of a command such as grow or weaken that takes time to execute. The script will not be stopped/killed until after that time has elapsed.

ls
Prints all files on the current server to the Terminal screen. This includes all scripts, programs, and message files. The files will be displayed in alphabetical order.

mem
Displays the amount of RAM needed to run the specified script with a single thread. The command can also be used to print the amount of RAM needed to run a script with multiple threads using the '-t' flag. If the '-t' flag is specified, then an argument for the number of threads must be passed in afterwards. Examples:

The first example above will print the amount of RAM needed to run 'foo.script' with a single thread. The second example above will print the amount of RAM needed to run 'foo.script' with 50 threads.

nano
Opens up the specified script in the Script Editor. If the script does not already exist, then a new, empty script will be created

ps
Prints all scripts that are running on the current server

rm
Removes the specified file from the current server. A file can be a script, a program, or a message file.

run
Execute a program or a script.

The '[-t]', '[num threads]', and '[args...]' arguments are only valid when running a script. The '-t' flag is used to indicate that the script should be run with the specified number of threads. If the flag is omitted, then the script will be run with a single thread by default. If the '-t' flag is used, then it MUST come immediately after the script name, and the [num threads] argument MUST come immediately afterwards.

[args...] represents a variable number of arguments that will be passed into the script. See the documentation about script arguments. Each specified argument must be separated by a space.

scan
Prints all immediately-available network connection. This will print a list of all servers that you can currently connect to using the 'connect' Terminal command.

scan-analyze
Prints detailed information about all servers up to [depth] nodes away on the network. Calling 'scan-analyze 1' will display information for the same servers that are shown by the 'scan' Terminal command. This command also shows the relative paths to reach each server.

By default, the maximum depth that can be specified for 'scan-analyze' is 3. However, once you have the DeepscanV1.exe and DeepscanV2.exe programs, you can execute 'scan-analyze' with a depth up to 5 and 10, respectively.

The information 'scan-analyze' displays about each server includes whether or not you have root access to it, its required hacking level, the number of open ports required to run NUKE.exe on it, and how much RAM it has

scp
Copies the specified script from the current server to the target server. The second argument passed in must be the hostname or IP of the target server.

sudov
Prints whether or not you have root access to the current machine

tail
Displays dynamic logs for the script specified by the script name and arguments. Each argument must be separated by a space. Remember that a running script is uniquely identified by both its name and the arguments that were used to run it. So, if a script was ran with the following arguments:

Then in order to check its logs with 'tail' the same arguments must be used:

theme
Change the color of the game's user interface

This command can be called with a preset theme. Currently, the supported presets are 'default', 'muted', and 'solarized'. However, you can also specify your own color scheme using hex values. To do so, you must specify three hex color values for the background color, the text color, and the highlight color. These hex values must be preceded by a pound sign (#) and must be either 3 or 6 digits. Example:

A color picker such as Google's can be used to get your desired hex color values

Themes are not saved, so when the game is closed and then re-opened or reloaded then it will revert back to the default theme.

top
Prints a list of all scripts running on the current server as well as their thread count and how much RAM they are using in total.

unalias
Deletes the specified alias. Note that the double quotation marks are required.

As an example, if an alias was declared using:

Then it could be removed using:

It is not necessary to differentiate between global and non-global aliases when using 'unalias'