"The Jupyter notebook server is a custom web server that runs the notebook web application. Most of the time, users run the notebook server on their local computer using the command line interface."
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"### Starting the notebook server using the command line"
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"You can start the notebook server from the command line (Terminal on Mac/Linux, CMD prompt on Windows) by running the following command: \n",
"\n",
" jupyter notebook\n",
"\n",
"This will print some information about the notebook server in your terminal, including the URL of the web application (by default, `http://127.0.0.1:8888`). It will then open your default web browser to this URL.\n",
"\n",
"When the notebook opens, you will see the **notebook dashboard**, which will show a list of the notebooks, files, and subdirectories in the directory where the notebook server was started (as seen in the next section, below). Most of the time, you will want to start a notebook server in the highest directory in your filesystem where notebooks can be found. Often this will be your home directory."
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"### Additional options"
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"By default, the notebook server starts on port 8888. If port 8888 is unavailable, the notebook server searchs the next available port.\n",
"\n",
"You can also specify the port manually:\n",
"\n",
" jupyter notebook --port 9999\n",
"\n",
"Or start notebook server without opening a web browser.\n",
"\n",
" jupyter notebook --no-browser\n",
"\n",
"The notebook server has a number of other command line arguments that can be displayed with the `--help` flag: \n",
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