Bash is a free shell for Unix-like operating systems, from the GNU Project
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How can I get zsh to display international characters properly?
I just started using zsh, and love it. However, I've stumbled upon an annoyance when it comes to international characters:
➜ ~ touch åäö.txt
➜ ~ ls
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Is there a shell which supports fuzzy completion as in Sublime Text?
I'm using bash and I was wondering if there is any plugin in bash or other shell which allows me to do this
cat tfnislong.txt + [tab] completes to cat ThisFileNameIsSoLong.txt just like tab completion ...
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BASH Completion: Ignore repeated?
I have a bad habit of pressing TAB too many times when using the terminal. If whatever bash completion routine invoked is particularly slow, this causes a huge wait while the terminal shows me the ...
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How do I disown/detach a process from the Git Bash terminal that come with Git's Windows installer?
I would like to run commands from the terminal (mostly Python servers) and essentially daemonize them. I am running the MinGW terminal "Git Bash" that comes with the Windows installer for Git.
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How to restrict cygwin's permissions in Windows 7
After an... ahem... incident involving an ill-judged rm -rf, it occurred to me that if you have administrator permissions on your Windows machine, working within a Cygwin terminal is the equivalent of ...
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Newly created files are ALWAYS executable by default -(cifs,NAS)?
I messed with file permissions on my NAS - My Book Live - which runs on Debian Lenny.
Now, every file I make is set executable by default. This happens only on the machine the NAS is mounted to.
When ...
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Problems with bash script, mysql inserts and launchd
I am developing a automated system, which consists of 3 parts: mysql, bash and launchd.
Bash script takes folders of work related stuff, zips, archives and puts info about them into database that is ...
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Line wrapping issues in bash/php
I am writing a program that prints colored lines, and the more I do with it the more I find myself working around line wrapping issues that come up.
It is a sort of terminal written in php, here is ...
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Why does this line appear every time I launch iTerm on my MacBook?
So I use iTerm on my MacBook Air and also my MacBook Pro. I've been playing around with .bashrc and .bash_profile and trying to come up with clever ways to configure things. At one point I decided I ...
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How do I install an icon with an underscore in its name with xgd-menu?
The image file is here, named it 'An_Icon.png' and saved it to ~/Desktop . I used the following commands to install it to my menus:
xdg-desktop-icon install --novendor ...
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Screen - switch tabs in subscreen
I use this in my .screenrc:
bindkey ^[q prev
bindkey ^[w next
to switch between windows with alt+w/q
If I open screen in screen, I can switch like: ctrl+a+a + number, but I would like to id for ...
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Messy output in zsh working in emacs M-x shell
I have changed my shell to oh-my-zsh, which is working great in iTerm.
However when I open up my Emacs, M-x shell, I see it also changes to zsh, but the output from executing commands is messy:
➜ ...
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Branch names not showing in Mercurial's tab completion
I have a development machine running mercurial 1.6.3. Tab completion in bash works great for completing commands, tags and branch names. I've set up a new machine with the same mercurial version (both ...
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gnome-terminal - color palette
I'm trying to assign color palette on my gnome-terminal but it doesn't change at all... any clue?
Screenshot > http://i.imgur.com/MXXhoOo.jpg
Aditional info:
Fedora 18 64bits (shiny new)
GNOME ...
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File shows different size after copying to another directory
I used cp -rP <dir name> <new dir name> to copy the contents of a directory, including permissions etc from one dir to another. The odd thing is, either du is giving me some strange ...
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Sending email through Gmail with mailx gives error “Send options without primary recipient specified”
I am trying to send an email with a Bash script with my Gmail account using mailx. I have the following code in the script:
mailx -v -s "$SUBJECT"
-S smtp-use-starttls
-S ssl-verify=ignore
-S ...
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Cron job not abiding by the nice command
I got a script that backs up minecraft worlds, when ran by command (nice -19 ./backup.sh) it doesn't lag what so ever, server load stays low. When I try to do nice -19 ./backup.sh in a cronjob, it ...
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Can't seem to connect to Win 7 share with smbclient 3.5.5 on Haiku
I did the registry mods mentioned here but cannot seem to connect. I say seem to, because there's no error message.
smbclient \\\\WIN7MACHINE\\ -U myusername
smbclient \\\\WIN7MACHINE\\ -U%
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bash add array to plist
I'm making a installable package via Cydia that will write com.intelliborn.intelliscreenx
to this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" ...
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Bash colorless on Plesk machine (debian)
Somehow from one day to the other, on my plesk server, the bash/terminal was colorless. A friend of mine managed to get it coming back to life (color, that is) by making some changes to the bash ...
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Error while installing OpenVZ kernel using yum in Fedora 17
I was trying to install OpenVZ kernel(rhel 6) in Fedora 17.Things worked fine until i issued the 'yum install vzkernel' command.The messages that i get at the end are:
Error: systemd conflict with ...
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android base64 cli conversion utilities
I want to encode a file into android base64. Android's sdk has a utility method that does this. I should be able to avoid doing any Android programming to solve this. There are utilities for windows ...
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Is this a bug in top?
This command line:
top -l 3 -n 10 -o "vprvt"
For some reason there are two processes that consistently creep up in the second sample's output regardless of their actual VPRVT size, and they do not ...
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How to put a Number in to a plist with bash
I'm trying to update my com.apple.background.plist. It works but the "ChangeTime" needs to be a Number/Integer in order to work. I tried to place a -int into the code but it gives an error.
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No error output for ruby commands
I am currently having the following problem:
Some of my ruby/rbenv commands commands (e.g.: bundle exec irb, rbenv rehash) fail when executing.
However I don't get any error output:
[~]$ bundle ...
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Pass arguments to osascript via shell function in OS X Mountain Lion
The answer in How to open a new Firefox window with URL argument is broken in Mac OSX Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I can't comment on that answer or question, so I had to create a new question.
It fails ...
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How can I use the PROMPT_COMMAND feauture in emacs shell?
In my regular shell I have PROMPT_COMMAND set up to run a script which keeps track of certain information about all the commands I run from any host I connect to. This is very helpful. I often find ...
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“set -xe” in fish shell
In bash, invoking set -x at the beginning of a script causes the commands to be printed on stdout while the script is executing. What's the equivalent syntax for the fish shell?
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How do I log peaks from a mic if they pass one or more thresholds?
I know that the package of xawtv has program call record that can start recording if sound level is over some threshold - but that is not quite the solution.
If someone knows how to do it - it could ...
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Linux's tab feature auto completes a file with a '/' at the end
Under bash I use tab to auto complete a file name. I use ls -l or any other command it ends a file with / . I believe a / would appear at the end only if it is a directory.
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Process ANSI escape codes before piping
I'm trying to pipe the output of a script (Mocha) to another script. However there is one problem: Mocha generates quite a few ansi escape characters to update the screen on the fly. These characters ...
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Remote Subversion URL Completion in Bash
Has anybody added Bash completion support for remote urls in svn commands? It could typically be implemented through parsing of calls to svn ls.
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Making M-u, M-l, and M-c apply to whole words in readline
This is what I've come up with so far:
"\C-\eU": upcase-word
"\C-\eL": downcase-word
"\C-\eC": capitalize-word
"\eu": "\C-f\eb\C-\eU"
"\el": "\C-f\eb\C-\eL"
"\ec": "\C-f\eb\C-\eC"
Is there some ...
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bash vi key bindings: Can I map keys? Display mode (insert vs command)?
I am a long time vi(m) user and recently made the switch to using vi key binding in bash. I can already tell that this will be an improvement, but I would like to customize a few things to really ...
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Node.js with Forever and node-dev
Seems like it should be a really simple one, but:
How can I run a node.js application with node-dev and forever.js
forever start node-dev app.js
doesn't work.
Ideally I'd have this as an init.d ...
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Is it possible to run an interactive script before shutdown Linux in a GNOME session?
I wrote some utility interactive scripts and want them run before shutdown.
For a terminal-login session, I just add some entry in ~/.bash_logout, my login shell is bash BTW, which works. However, I ...
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piping cdparanoia through play, aplay, /dev/sound, etc
Currently I am trying to use cdparanoia to play from an audio cd directly without making any temporary files. I can play the first track of a cd realtime by doing
cdparanoia -e 1 /dev/shm/tmp.wav ...
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Where shared folders are located on MAC OS X Lion?
On Snow Leopard there is a file named /var/db/samba/smb.shares where listed all shared folders.
Does anyone know, where that file is located on MAC OS X Lion? Thanks
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Unix (Debian) autocomplete paths thru symlinks
By default, directory symlinks on unix systems are treated as files as far as the autocomplete feature goes. For example, having a directory symlink at /srv/link/, typing /srv/liTAB does only complete ...
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How to mount SMB share from terminal using keychain?
I need to be able mount a SMB share from terminal, for MAC OS versions (10.7). Is there a way to use mount_smbfs with keychain so I don't get prompt the username/password or have to add it to the ...
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aescrypt doesn't function with pv in pipeline
I am writing a bash script that pipes a file through pipe viewer to watch encryption progress. However, whenever I use aescrypt in the pipeline with pv, I get an error about not matching passwords. If ...
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sudo: preserve non-std file descriptors
Long story short: why isn't this (simplified) sample working?
root:# sudo -C 3 -u regular-user cat /dev/fd/3 3< /var/log/syslog
cat: /dev/fd/3: No Such file or directory
There is a file that ...
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Why does OS X Lion's terminal treat the PS1 prompt codes differently than Snow Leopard?
I get different behaviors in terminal with the same prompt definition in Snow Leopard and Lion.
On my Snow Leopard system, I define my terminal prompt in .profile as follows:
export ...
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Copy the output of the last command in Terminal.app
!! | pbcopy would also run the commands again and couldn't be used with interactive commands.
This relies on the prompt always being $ :
tell application "Terminal" to tell window 1 to history
do ...
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Grub: Legacy 'ask' parameter no longer supported
I'm trying to change the resolution on my base shell (the Ctrl+Alt+1) shell in Debian so that it supports my ViewSonic monitor.
The shell appears really fuzzy when it is displayed on my lcd monitor, ...
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Converting csh or tsh scripts to Bash
I am looking for a tool that can convert scripts written in csh or tcsh to a bash scripts. At least on the basic stuff so that I don't have to go through the process of translating everything from ...
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script -e and crontab or at
I have a shellscript I want to run via at and use script to capture a transcript. script -e was introduced in util-linux-ng 2.18 and returns the retval of the child process.
I want to capture the ...
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Subversion URL bash completion
I found the below script and sourced it correctly, and it successfully bash completes my commands, but isn't working for my URLs. I'm using OSX Snow Leopard and 3.2.48 and I've been using the normal ...
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Using gxine_client to get and set value playlist.repeat for running gxine
I would like to know how to use the gxine javascript interface from bash shell.
I want to have a bash shell script read out value of running gxine,
set things like playlist repeat/loop option, ...
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paravirtualization using xen in debian wheezy
i have been trying to run av virtual machine using xen but in the end i always get the error
chroot: failed to run command `/sbin/shadowconfig': Exec format error
hook 05-shadowconfig-on: done.
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