Questions tagged [command-line]
An interface for interacting with a computer using typed commands in a text-oriented environment, as opposed to a graphical user interface (GUI).
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Fork A Repo via GitHub API by curl
How to fork a Repo via GitHub API?
I'm looking at GitHub Fork API doc at
https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/forks/#create-a-fork
and I'm quite confused as how to do it.
Create a fork
Create ...
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Pass Variable into CMD
I have setup a script and tested that it work with user input via set /p but now I want to pass that variable automatically to the cmd.
Script w/ user input:
@ECHO OFF
set /p id="Enter Rom: "
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What Linux distribution to a server on an old PC
I have an old PC with 2G RAM, 30G SATA HDD with a pentium II processor.
I wonder what Linux distro to make my own server ?
This server will be used for: gcc/g++ with vim/emacs
I don't want any GUI ...
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CMD Not Running 2nd Command ( & ) till first program is exited
I'm trying to start two programs simultaniously via CMD.
I'm more used to linux, normally I would create 2 commands in a script and just use & or ; - but it doesn't seem to be working
I've ...
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How to make a batch file a task switcher?
How to make a batch file a task switcher?
With windows XP and Windows 7 batch files...
The batch file is:
cls
@echo off
echo 1
start /normal c:\windows\system32\taskmgr.exe
echo 2
pause ...
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Changing default terminal of Codeblocks 13.12 in Windows
I seem to be at a dead end here. I cannot change the terminal for Codeblocks on Windows, although it is a cakewalk in Linux.
The option is greyed out.
Running as admin doesn't work also.
The box ...
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Connecting two PCs with laplink cable without additional SW on one of them
I have an old laptop running Windows 95, a quite clean installation. Its floppy drive recently died and since it has no CD drive, ethernet or USB, I am almost out of options how to get data into it.
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Telnet won't run from cmd prompt in windows 7
Edit:I am running windows 7, 64 bits.
I have Telnet Client installed, and if I go to c:\windows\system32 i do find the file "telnet.exe"; if I click it, telnet runs perfectly.
However, if I type ...
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Get path to applescript stored on iCloud
I wrote a shell script which calls an applescript to do some work. The applescript is in iCloud, so I'm manually writing the path to the document storage location...
osascript ~/Library/Mobile\\ ...
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Ambiguous redirect error for simple echo
I have come across an oddity when performing a simple echo command. Can anyone explain what's going on? Here's the scenario, there are exactly three files in a folder and I want to replace their ...
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How to remove environment variable
I am use Windows 10 pro. I try to run other Tomcat instance, but I cannot control config (%CATALINA_HOME%).
This is systempropertiesadvanced (hasn't CATALINA_HOME variable):
I try to echo by cmd (...
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Automate the comparison of corrupted files
After an unfortunate CHKDSK analysis which corrupted many files on a 3TB HDD (erroneously detected as 746 GB, probably because of a USB2 controler being incompatible with capacities over 2TB), I would ...
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List of directory tree of multiple files
I am trying to compile a list of all the files in four directories, each with a different path. I have the following code, and it is working, but not how I want it to
@echo off
tree d:\directory > ...
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Move directory contents up one level without using mv/cp/find/
Often, after downloading and uncompressing a compressed folder, one ends up with a folder structure like this:
.
└── downloaded
└── downloaded
├── a
├── b
├── c
└──...
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WinSCP Commandline Private key
What I am trying to so is: Open a WInSCP-Session using a private key instead of a password.
The simple Password-Approach works:
WinSCP.exe root:[email protected]
But the next step, using the ...
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Clear windows command prompt screen using keyboard shortcuts
Is there any way of clearing the command prompt screen in windows using keyboard shortcuts?
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Finding PowerShell Cmdlets equivalent to GUI actions (cross post) [closed]
DISCLAIMER: I've read on the meta that cross-posting is OK if one is stil looking for an answer. So the following is a duplicate of a question on StackOverflow even though it is probably more ...
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adobe acrobat pro xi save as PDFs optimized using command line?
I have a directory I would like to reduce in size that contains about 4,570 files.
I have Adobe Acrobat Pro and the Save As PDF optimized seems like it's doing a good job but obviously I can't do ...
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Is there a CLI to list or download documents not locally cached in iCloud drive?
I have a symbolic link of ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs in my home directory. My iCloud Drive is larger than my Mac's SSD, so I can only have some files downloaded locally at anytime....
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Calling terminal.app with the commandline it should execute
I use Lazarus IDE to generate some content. Inside it I can set up external commands.
I can configure "Program name" and "Parameters"
I would like to set it up, so I from inside the software can ...
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why wget can't download from this server?
using win10
can download link with IDM & chrome
I get this errors. is there anything wrong
C:\Users\alihani>cd C:\wget-1.19.1-win64
C:\wget-1.19.1-win64>wget http://rgwha1.elcld.com/...
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Getting mmap() error when extracting 7z files
Every time I run 7z x test.7z
Or any other command using 7z I get
Can't load '/usr/lib/p7zip/7z.dll' (dlopen(/usr/lib/p7zip/7z.so, 6): no suitable image found. Did find:
/usr/lib/p7zip/7z.so: mmap()...
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How can I get a list of file that match a list of regular expressions?
I want to see what is not being backed up using regular expressions. The list is here: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Troubleshooting/What_Is_Not_Backing_Up#Admin_Excludes
I tried
$ cat | ...
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Force Windows use .EXE on PATH rather than CMD.EXE internal command
When I execute a command with the same name as an internal command, instead of searching in the path Windows simply uses the one found in CMD.EXE.
For example, MKDIR is an internal command built into ...
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How to open a folder on notepad++ using windows command line?
I wonder if there is a way to open a folder in notepad++ from command line on windows..I can open a single file, but i want to know how to open folders as workspace (not from notepad++ dashboard) but ...
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Pass parameters via command line argument to .exe
How can I pass parameters from cmd prompt ?? I am trying to follow the following instructions:
For information about usage and parameters, simply run PGRIdleStateFix from the command prompt.
The ...
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Tmux independent pane switching
I am wondering if it is possible to have a shared tmux session which has a window with multiple panes that the users can switch between independently. For example, user Alice should be able to have ...
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How to give custom name to executable file formed by compiling CSharp code at command Prompt?
I am using Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2017. I have created a project HelloCSharp. My project location is:
C:\Users\Sonevol\source\repos\HelloCSharp
I go to HelloCSharp folder in which I have ...
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Replacement of sudo in window without using third party tool
Is there thing in windows to run a command as an administrator from command line.
I have a script and inside that I want to run following command as an administrator.
C:\User\Admin\assemblies\nssm....
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How can I reset windows powershell/command prompt, like reset in bash?
When I use vagrant on Windows I will sometimes find that newlines aren't respected properly. This is typically after doing a vagrant ssh. So text ends up looking like
This machine with the name '...
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What is the function of the asterisk as a standalone command in Unix?
I was messing around in terminal on Red Hat Linux, and when I typed the asterisk (*) followed by return, and it executed one of the programs in my directory. Why?
My best guess is that Unix treated ...
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Can I force a greater screen brightness from Windows Command Prompt
I have a Sony Vaio laptop, and it runs windows 7. I know I can adjust screen brightness from the control panel, but I want to force it to be even brighter. Is there a hack, or a way to do this from ...
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delete old dir, make new empty dir
The single bash command >| foo creates an empty file foo, no matter if it was previously nonempty, or empty, or missing. (It fails if it was read-only, or a directory.)
Is there a similar single ...
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Delete matching directories in all subdirectories
How can I remove all run-*.achilles directories in all of my subdirectories under Linux?
I tried find /path -name run-*.achilles -type f -delete but it doesn't work.
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Dealing with Ctrl+Z in Unix
While completing an assignment on Unix, I accidentally pressed Ctrl+Z and the program got terminated (suspended). Afterwards when I try to access it again, I am getting the message 'permission denied'....
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How I get my command prompt to show just the name of the folder I'm in (not the whole path))
In a command prompt window (terminal), how can I get my prompt to be just the current folder?
e.g.
prompt $p $g
gives:
C:\Users\Robin >
But I want it to just show:
Robin >
UPDATE: As @...
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Trying to understand the “w” command in macOS
Currently, I am learning some UNIX command and encountered several unexplained questions. Thanks for your answering.
When I run the command w from the terminal, I got some messages shown in the ...
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Making log output more readable in terminal
I'm currently developing with Wordpress and monitoring its debug.log file which updates on every page re-load. If there's an error, it will add those lines to the debug.log on refresh. The three basic ...
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How to check size of a directory given by user as an argument?
I want to get the size of a directory given by user as an argument.
Example:
read -p "Enter the directory" target
du -k $target
If user gives path as ~/Documents/dir, I am getting error msg: du: ...
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Is there a way to open non-runnable files directly from CLI
Let's say I have file without execution permission. Now a quick way to open such a file over the CLI is to use xdg-open which uses the system default to open a specific file.
Is it now possible to ...
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Do OS GUI's have a different shell than the command line interpreter?
This is a very general question but I am having a difficult time finding clarification. My question is: do OS GUI's have a different shell than the command line interpreter? When I was reading about ...
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How to expand disk space for standard user in kali linux?
I have two users in my linux device. I'm using kali rolling 2016 edition.
I usually use my standard user profile.After installing some softwares it's showing that there is problem in storage ...
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Is it possible to run a VirtualBox virtual machine inside a terminal?
I've downloaded an application packaged as a Virtual Machine from this website; basically, these images are higly specialized contained systems that acts as a server for a specific application, in ...
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Stop and disable windows service from command line [duplicate]
I've tried the top comment here Disable a Windows service from the command line but when I restart the computer the service is back up and running again.
If I manually go into services.msc and change ...
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How to remove a double file extension?
I had a terrible thing happen to Win 10 that resulted in me deleting my favor Music Folder. I was able to recover all music using Recuva. However, once all songs were restored the program added an ...
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What is the command line switch for Far Manager to open in a specified directory?
What is the command line switch for Far Manager to open in a specified directory?
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Command to search ffmpeg directory pathway
I'm new to ffmpeg and I am trying to convert some avi videos to uncompressed avi files. The problem is every time I run the command:
ffmpeg -i "Dip 1.avi"
this error message appears:
Dip 1....
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The "+" and "-" signs next to the job number
The bash man page says
In output pertaining to jobs (e.g., the output of the
jobs command), the current job is always flagged with a +, and the pre‐
vious job with a -. A ...
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Efficiently change a single file extension in Windows
What is the simplest way of changing a file extension (without messing around with folder view options)?
Oftentimes I have to quickly change the extension of a single file on a Windows PC. I don't ...
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restart zebra printer via powershell?
I want to restart zebra printer via command line , not the printjob , i want restart the device remotely
there is cmdlet in PowerShell for restart the servers,The Restart-Service cmdlet sends a stop ...