Termux is a Free and Open-source Terminal Emulator which allows you to work under a Linux environment on Android or IOS Phones. It contains a built-in package manager that enables you to download and set up numerous testing and development apps across your phones. Using its package manager, it automatically installs the base system and certain additional programs. The majority of commands work in Termux, it also includes the zsh and tcsh shells and bash as default.
Install Termux on Android
Note: Since November 2022, the Google Playstore has refused to accept updates from Termux, so downloading Termux from there won’t work. So, here’s how you can download Termux as a Third-Party App.
Step 1. Go to the following link.
Step 2. Swipe down then click on Download APK.
Step 3. After completion of the download, simply click on it to install it.
Step 4. Now open the Termux app. After installing a few bootstrap packages, you will get the Termux Welcome Screen.
Step 5. Let us give it Storage permission by the following command.
termux-setup-storage
Step 6. A popup will now appear asking for permission to give access to the storage; click Allow.
Demonstration
1. pwd – to check the current directory
pwd
2. touch – creating blank files
touch
3. ls – list files and directories
ls
4. mkdir – to create a directory
mkdir
5. cd – to travel paths
cd