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Determine the path of an executed program on Windows
I know that you can open the task manager and right-click on a process and select "Open file path".
But what can I do if the program is just a console application which closes right after its start?
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Mac Console.app not logging any messages
I recently attempted to overcome the 500 message limitation on console logs using the advice provided here:
Mac: Extend or disable 500 Messages Limit of Console
I copied the PLIST file onto my ...
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Linux console: how to use different key maps for different devices?
My laptop has a US built-in keyboard and I am also connecting a good old Cherry keyboard with German key layout via a PS/2-to-USB adapter. Is there a way to install different keymaps used in the Linux ...
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Switch console user remotely on windows
Sometimes I need to remote my home computer to make my kid's account logged-on physically and I'm currently using VNC to do that.
Is it possible (with or without modification) to connect users to the ...
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Can't get linux/firefox web client console access to VM working? [closed]
[ a finding, and having a solution documented would have been very helpful for me ... ]
When first trying to access a VM’s console via the vSphere Web Client 5.0 (using Debian’s default firefox-y ...
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Serial redirection for a desktop computer
Lets suppose I have a desktop computer. Is there any way (i.e. a PCI card or some kind of software/hardware) through which I can enable the computer to support serial redirection?
By serial ...
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How can I grep with color in Mac OS X's terminal?
I recently found that on Mac OS X I can set this up in my shell ~/.profile so that when I use grep it will print the matches in color (white one red).
alias grep='GREP_COLOR="1;37;41" LANG=C grep ...
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Alternative console host for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008
I am often frustrated with the Windows' console host application, especially how clumsily the clipboard works, no-automatic-width issues etc. I would like to know if there is a way to replace the ...
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windows console with ANSI colors handling
Is there any console emulator for Windows that interprets ANSI coloring?
We use rspec and a part of our team use Windows and the special string for coloring are not very useful for them ;).
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Cutting users off in Windows console sessions
I'm currently working in a company where many of us log onto hosts/servers under Windows Server 2008 via console session.
If one person is logged on and another tries it causes the person who was ...
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X Graphical Shell Not Working
I'm having a problem with my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS install, the X graphical interface was working great, but the grub boot menu and virtual console was not, I'd get a monitor out of range error.
I went ...
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basic bash console mac
I am very inexperienced with the console, I have been exploring rails and somehow my command root in the console used to be:
Ross-MacBook-Pro:....$
inadvertently it has now been changed to:
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Can I suppress error reporting dialog boxes that prevent my crashed console app from closing?
I have a windows console app that hosts a WCF service and also transcodes video using DirectShow. I use a great little app called Restart on Crash which reliably detects when a process has exited and ...
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How to change input keyboard layout while in console?
I need to change layout of keyboard while working in console in Linux. I need to setup English layout as default for console. How to do it?
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How to decipher time in console
I'm reading my console logs and trying to figure out how to interpret the time stamp that console displays:
Time 1332251808
TimeNanoSec 72951500
I also have another time stamp that reads:
Time ...
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Why do some command boxes in XP keep the internal name “C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe”?
If I start a windows console from a bat file in windows XP, some of the boxes get the name of the bat file it is started from, but other files still result in the standard ...
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fbv in tmux only shows the file info (no X)
When I use fbv outside of tmux (no X), my image gets shown normally, but when I do it inside tmux, I have to press and hold "j" to make it "flicker" across the screen, otherwise it isn't shown at all ...
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Getting “The HOME environmental variable changed out from under us!” in system log
In Mac OS X Lion, I am seeing many lines in my system.log file indicating that the HOME env variable has been changed.
19/02/2012 23:47:16.204 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ...
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How to add a font to the Cmd window choices in Windows 7 64-bit?
I tried following the procedure outlined in this previous answer and it doesn't work: http://superuser.com/a/5079/2366
Specifically I'm trying to add Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular to the choices of ...
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Recovery Console Does Not Find My Windows Installations
Hi i have a BSOD when booting into windows.
I want to perform a chkdsk to fix any bad sectors etc.
I insert win xp cd and boot from cd, i press r to access the recovery console.
The harddrive....
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Xubuntu: cant exit screensaver, cant login to console
I'm in the middle of moving my windows partition with gparted and the screensaver kicked in. Now no matter what I press on the keyboard or mouse the screen stays blank. I can get to a console with ...
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Hiragana console font for GNU/Linux?
This guide doesn't give the information I need, saying only:
Please be aware that japanese is not possible on purely console mode, unless you have an advanced text mode AND a special software.
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Cygwin: PS1 cannot wrap lines on the same line (2)
I found that in my cygwin,
The PS1 console have 2 lines and I want to solve it. This is due to "\n" at the end of PS1
But I cannot export it well due to "not a valid identifier" error.
How can I ...
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Console prompt in bash changed unexpectedly
In bash, my default console prompt looked like this:
kit:~ Kit$
I do not know what I did to make it change to this:
112:~ Kit$
What caused the 112: to appear? I'm in a different network, where ...
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Multitab Console (shareware) - Environment Variables
I am using this utility for multi-tabbed command prompt called 'Console' - http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
I am not able to use the environment variables defined for Windows in here e.g. ...
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Is there any way/tool to open a console executable and then the console stays open? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to prevent the command prompt from closing after execution?
When I open an exe using the windows explorer, the console opens and closes. Is there any way or tool to ...
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Windows software to redirect console output to the cursor
It's not uncommon for me to have to run a command line program that gives me a unique code (kind of like an RSA SecurID token, but entirely software), and then paste that code into a web page or ssh ...
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SSH Terminal width when run from plink.exe on Windows
I'm using Console2 to run a Powershell in which I run plink.exe to connect to a Linux server. It works fine except that ps, top and other utilities in the shell only thinks the output window is 80 ...
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Setting the group policy without the console in Windows 7 Home Premium
I am trying to suppress the prompt that Windows Update provides after an update. All of the permanent solutions that I have found use the group policy management console to adjust the settings. I'm ...
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Ubuntu Server Console Display Problems
I've just installed Ubuntu Server on an old PC I've had hanging around the house.
It didn't exactly go smoothly, to say the least.
When I first turned it on, it wouldn't boot because the CMOS needed ...
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Set DOS console mode (40 character mode)
How exactly would you set the DOS console to 40 character mode (which I belive looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZIzCGir58Y)? I know you can do it, as in old games like ZZT.
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How do I use Console 2 with Windows?
Patience please: this is a for dummies question. I've never used a console before and I started to learn Ruby. I use cmd.exe in Windows, but it's bland and has no colour coding, which hurts my eyes.
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Is PowerShell a complete replacement for console/cmd?
Right now I'm using the Windows console (cmd.exe) for some easy tasks (as checking my ip configuration or running some applications). But now I heard that there is PowerShell which actually is way ...
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Windows XP SP3 cmd console freezes on exit command when in fullscreen mode
When I do Alt+F4 on pure clean cmd console in fullscreen mode it does exit out of the console process (a disk is working for split a second) but it fails to close the console window after that, so I ...
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7zip command line to extract folder from archive
I'm using the 7zip commandline to extract a zip archive called abc.zip which is an archive with a folder called 'zipper' with three text files in it (a.txt,b.txt,c.txt).
My problem is when I extract ...
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Create movies from images and sound files scripting transitions using Linux console?
I need a Linux command-line program that can:
Accept some kind of scripting language capable of transitions (fade, scale...)
Generate movie files like AVI, MKV etc from images like JPG, PNG, and ...
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mysql when in command line how to jump previous line
How to jump previous line when in mysql console ?
i want jump to FROM line ?
Sory for my bad english.
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com.apple.launchd: com.apple.launchd.peruser error
It's been a couple of days I am reading these errors in the system log file.
25/11/11 21:31:43,373 com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.launchd.peruser.32697[92747]) getpwuid("32697") failed
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mouse interaction with ls output - click to open
I would like to be able to (double) click a file from the ls output and open it with the associated program. Anyone knows a way to do this?
Mouse-console interaction is possible with GPM and links ...
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GNU Screen: Combining split-regions and full-screen sessions
Let's say I have three sessions: 0, 1 and 2
I'm on session 0 and I press CTRL-A S to split the screen. Then I select session 1 for the bottom split region, while 0 is in the upper.
Can I switch to ...
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Chrome: Hide Extension Errors in JavaScript Console
Is there a way to prevent extensions from showing up in the console of the developer tools window? It's annoying to be looking for JavaScript errors and have to ignore errors that are always there. I ...
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How do I manage programs that run in multiple consoles?
I have a script that starts 7 or 8 different c++ server modules that all open in console windows on a windows machine. I've been looking for a way to run all of these in a single, tabbed window. I've ...
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VMWare: Redirect linux console beep to sound card
I'm sitting in a large office of 20 people or so. I - as others - have headphones, so we do not disturb each other. The problem is that when my guest Linux beeps it "appears" on my laptop's internal ...
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How can I restore a remote desktop session to the local console?
After I am finished with a remote desktop connection, I'd like to be able to restore the remote desktop to the local console so that the user doesn't have to re-enter the password and log back in.
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Pasting into Vista console windows broke, why?
I use Windows Vista x64 and regularly use command line windows, for instance CMD.EXE. I have enabled QuickEdit Mode (and Insert Mode and AutoComplete), to be able to quickly copy and paste text from ...
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Windows start /wait /b NOT working
Despite what the documentation says, I cannot get start /wait to work with /b, despite stabbing in the dark trying nearly every possible combination of inputs I can imagine. My command path does not ...
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How to fix SSH console encoding error
I'm not sure if encoding is the word but I just deployed a plain instance of Ubuntu 10.04 in Amazon's EC2
I log in to the server from a Windows PC with PUTTY and here is the output of a tree command:
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How to stop kernel messages from flooding my console?
I'm using Centos 6, rsyslog logging. Console is flooded with kernel messages.
Klogd is not running (I'm using rsyslog)
Rsyslog config does not direct anything to the console
Even tried stopping ...
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How to set terminal size in Android adb shell?
When I connect to Android using "adb shell" and run certain commands such as "vim" or "mc", they are restricted to a "window" of 25x80 characters. Since I'm connecting from a desktop computer where ...
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What's the difference between a console, terminal and command-line? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
My non-tech-savvy friends unanimously agree that console refers to hardware and terminal refers to software.
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