Terminal

The Terminal tab in the bottom panel gives you a full shell inside your workspace. Use it to run the dbt™ CLI, Git commands, and shell scripts without leaving the IDE or setting up a local machine. To open a new terminal, click the + button in the Terminal tab or use the keyboard shortcut ⌃⇧` / Ctrl+⇧+`. You can open multiple terminals and split them side by side. Check the list of all available dbt™ commands here.

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The Run button

The Run button at the top of the bottom panel builds the file you have open without typing a command. It offers popular dbt™ operations for the model in focus, with options to include upstream or downstream nodes:

• only the current selected resource: dbt run --select <model_name>
• the resource with upstream dependencies: dbt run --select +<model_name>
• the resource with downstream dependencies: dbt run --select <model_name>+

The dropdown also includes Build, Test, Run full refresh, and Run dbt deps variants. Output streams into the Terminal tab.

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dbt™ autocompletion

The Paradime terminal provides autocompletion for dbt™ commands. You can tab-complete model, tag, source, and package selectors passed to node selection flags like --select and --exclude. See the dbt™ node selection syntax docs. Type dbt in your terminal and use the ⇥tab key to trigger dbt™ autocompletion.