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How can I open an application using the command line and then close the terminal without closing the opened application?
If I open an application from the command line, say Firefox, the application runs as long as the terminal stays open. Closing the terminal's tab will close the application.
Is there a way to open an ...
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Place contents of last command line output into clipboard
I want to be able to run a command in my Terminal, and then quickly be able to copy the contents of the output into my clipboard without leaving my keyboard. Is there any way to do this?
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Terminal not listing Applications folder
The problem that I am running into is that when I cd into my Applications folder and try to ls to see all my folders it doesn't show anything. This is the only directory that does this as I am able to ...
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In Bash (Mac/Linux terminal shell), can the up and down arrow keys be made to function as they do in text editors?
In text editors, if I press the up and down arrow keys, it moves the cursor between lines of text.
In Bash, if I’m typing a long command that spans multiple lines and I press the up and down arrow ...
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Understanding the terminal and shell interaction
For a long while my understanding about a terminal in unix-like systems has been that it launches the shell process and provides a user interface to it by communicating with it over it's stdin, stdout ...
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How to selectively navigate through Bash command history on a Linux terminal [duplicate]
Everyone knows (or should know!) that on a terminal the up and down arrow keys are used to navigate through the history of used commands.
When you use the terminal on a daily basis, your command ...
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Any way to wipe out everything I have installed via Command Line?
So I have borked my system.
Running OS X 10.8.3, I have installed a mess of stuff; Ruby, RVM, Git, Node, Brew etc... As well as playing with dotfiles (http://dotfiles.github.io/) Which I really ...
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Looking for an alternative to 'pstat' (for getting the count of active vnodes)
I know that on earlier version of Mac OS X there was a bundled pstat shell command that could be used to retrieve some information about the vnode's count.
Do you know an alternative that may works ...
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How to access AT commands and turn device to modem-only mode
I am using mac and I am having problems getting my dongle to work. I want to get my 3g dongle (Huawei E 1550) working on my android tablet.
I need access AT commands and turn device to modem-only ...
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Text Becomes Prefixed in Command Line
When using the up or down issue I sometimes get an issue where some of the previous commands text appears in front of my actually typing. It does not affect anything when I hit enter but it is very ...
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What arguments does the Mac's Terminal.app accept?
I've found that running open -a Terminal /path/to/folder will open a new Terminal window at the given folder.
What is the best place to look to find documentation on all of the command-line arguments ...
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Command line in OSX breaks when I edit bash_profile
Please help me, I am learning how to add sublime to command line from this link
and when I created .bash_profile file, in the first line I typed export PATH= and saved it.
My command line is broken. ...
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Virtual terminal with at least 16bit color?
It's 2013 and there should be terminals with more than 256 colors by now (you'd think).
Are there any terminals with more than 8bit colors (usually from 8 bit we jump to 16bit) to use with linux?
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Bash script - find directory, and do something in it. Or find a file, and do something with it
This is what I have so far:
for f in 'svn ls repository_dir';
do
svn checkout repository_dir/$f/trunk/dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/needed_dir
done
This works great for the projects (100's of them) that ...
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All the command line command become “Not found” after installing Mountain lion
I just found after installing new Mountain lion, I can no longer use the command line because all the command seems to be " NOT Found", even for basic "sudo" command
sudo: command not found
How can ...
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Logging into multiple servers
We have a service which is a distributed system running across about 16 machines, each doing different things.
When an operational issue is reported, I would ideally like our dev/ops team to be able ...
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urxvt settings - reload without restarting terminal?
I have two urxvt color themes that I use, one for light background and one for dark, depending on how sunny the environment is.
It's easy enough to switch them by modifying ~/.Xresources and running ...
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Can terminal be used to find files on MBP? [closed]
Can terminal be used to find where Thunderbird keeps email files?
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'cd' command in terminal - using partial folder name
If I want to navigate inside folder with long hard-to-type name, is there way to use 'cd' with some kind of shortened name of this folder, to get free from unnecessary work?
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Linux command line: run mon nice and C exectuable together
I'm trying to run ./a.out, but monitored (using mon) and nice'd to highest priority.
Here are the commands separately:
nice -n -20 /home/pi/a.out //works fine
mon /home/pi/a.out //works fine
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Search forward in command line history
With Ctrl + R you can search in previous commands. If you hit Ctrl + R again, it will displays older previous commands.
The problem it that this search is "one way", it always displays older results ...
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Power user Command Line Prompts - Powerline, Oh my ZSH, et al vs Portable old Sh [closed]
I'm a recent powerline prompt convert, after switching to Zsh I realized how much better the CLI is when you trick out your command line a little.
I got annoyed with the 2 line prompt that comes ...
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Remap Keys via Command Line in Mac OS X
I'm trying to write a script that will replicate my OS X setup. In particular I want to remap the arrow keys to CMD + H,J,K,L.
The technique seems to be similar to this Linux solution, except the key ...
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How do I disable terminal control escape sequences in Linux?
I am writing software that interacts with an embedded device running a version of busybox Linux. Basically, I am just sending commands to the device and parsing the output from the commands . The ...
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How to overload a linux command
Every time the user types git commit -a,
I want to run it in my own script,
Then run original command git commit.. and have it run as it would have normally.
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excuting from terminal configure fails
I am trying to install XFe 1.33 downloaded from http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/index.php?page=docs
But when I am doing
./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
...
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Download an entire site folder via ftp using terminal on a mac
Lets say for kicks that my site ftp login details are:
100.100.10.100
username
password
What is the best (fastest download with a relatively simple syntax) method to download an entire site folder ...
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1answer
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Clear Chrome's cache via CLI
Is there a way to clear Google Chrome's cache via a CLI command on OSX? Ideally this would be made via some “official” way, and preferably without having to open Chrome (i.e. by launching it with some ...
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How to add commands of windows to local shell of XShell 4
XShell is a very powerful tools to ssh remote computers such as Unix/Linux. And it has built some internal commands for you to run within your Windows.
Xshell:\> help
Internal Commands:
new: ...
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Insert escaped characters in seq command separator
How do I insert a string containing escaped characters (\n, \t, etc) as separator for the seq command?
The standard format includes a newline character:
$ seq 3
1
2
3
But if I try ...
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OSX: Possible to use Total Terminal with iTerm2?
As I understand it, Total Terminal is a thin layer on top of Terminal.app that adds some Yakuake-like features.
My question is: Is it possible to use Total Terminal with iTerm2 as the "backend" ...
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What are the different types of terminals and how can I find out what the current one is?
I want to automatically be put in a screen if I log in on a tty (if I'm using e.g. Terminal, I can simply open a new window instead.) I've already figured out the screen parameters and startup file ...
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Locking down firmware to keep stolen laptop from being formatted?
On the Mac laptops there are ways through the terminal to lock down the computer so that if someone tries to format the computer they won't be able to do it without the password. This way locks down ...
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How to mass prepend text to file names?
Lets say I have a directory full of .md files all named various things. Lets say I wanted to prepend "text" to the front of each file name. So for example: file a.md, b.md, and c.md would become test ...
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How to get user information Mac?
How would I get user information from a Mac such as user domain, etc. through a Terminal command?
I've tried dscl as well as dscacheutil, but they don't really have what I'm looking for. I was ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 - Terminal - Huge/Large text on each command line [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to change my terminal window prompt text?
I have been using "Ubuntu 12.04" for few days now (no previous Linux experiences at all) and I have noticed that ...
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How to change the size of Linux terminal
I'm using Fedora on a laptop with external dispaly via VGA. (the internal one is disabled, but will open when it is booting up)
Internal 1024*400, External 1920*1080.
The resolution is normal under ...
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How to keep Ubuntu 11.10 and Kate editor w/terminal from changing command line when changing tabs?
I am programming C using Kate editor in Ubuntu 11.10. It works great, but when I change tabs in Kate, the terminal line changes to the file path of the tab I click on.
Normally this is not a big deal ...
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ls -al Mac Terminal
I'm new in the use of the terminal. I have seen in a video that uses ls -al and I don't know what it is. I have found that ls -a is to list all the files even the hidden but I cannot find what does ls ...
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What command lists the files created in a specific month and is readable for the owner?
I am supposed to find the command that lists all the files created in September and are readable for the owner. Also explain how the command works.
I know I'm supposed to use
ls -l
and I will ...
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Color in Cygwin terminal
I've installed cygwin because I'm a bit fed up with the Windows terminal not being great. The only problem I'm having is the lack of colours.
You can see the problem in the following 2 screenshots ...
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What is this [root@server ~#] as opposed to [root@name ~]#
What is this [root@server ~#] as opposed to [root@name ~]#
Notice the # is inside the bracket on the first one and outside on the second one.
What is the first one and what command in a terminal ...
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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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Command-line interrupts in OSX vs Linux
Occasionally when I'm developing on my Mac, I'll get a process that hangs. When that happens, I'll try the following:
Ctl-C in the active terminal window
If nothing happens, I'll open a new terminal ...
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How can I enable Mountain Lion Airplay mirroring through command line?
I want to enable/disable airplay mirroring with an script and I don't know how to find what commands are executed when Airplay is activated.
Any idea about how to do it or where to search?
Thank ...
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How do I install this command-line software?
Here's a link to the software - it's command line and I have no idea how to install so I can use it in Terminal on my Mac.
http://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/about/
Thank you.
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How can I get the current screen resolution from the command line on OS X?
How can I get the current display resolution from the command line in OS X?
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Terminfo or termcap in command-line
Is it possible to see a all the capabilities (terminfo or termcap) of the current terminal on command line?
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Mac OSX Terminal different colors
Is there a way for the command line and the output to be in different colors? For example, I've been playing with the PS1 value so my prompt is in red, but I'd like to have the command line in green ...
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Why wouldn't you be able to hide a file in OS X with chflags?
So, bit of an oddball question. There's a particular file—an alias—that for some reason will not hide from the UI with chflags hidden. Doesn't matter what I do. sudo is ineffective against this ...
