How to Open a Directory in Terminal from File Manager?

For those who are new to the Linux Operating system (an open-source and mostly POSIX-compliant operating system modeled on UNIX, assembled under free and open-source software development model), may found difficulty in navigate to directories via Linux terminal.

You can install a nautilus-open-terminal to open the directory in the terminal if you are using Nautilus, which is the default file manager.

To install nautilus-open-terminal, follow the steps below.

• Open the terminal.
• Type the following command.

  sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

• After installation you can verify the right click option. You will be able to see an option 'Open in Terminal'.
• If you couldn't find a new option 'Open in Terminal', type

  nautilus -q && nautilus &

  to quit the file manager, nautilus and reopen it.
• Right click on any directory, and you are done!!!
• You can also kill the nautilus instead of logout and log in back, using

  sudo killall -9 nautilus

Hope this helps!