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rxvt - how to clear scrollback
I was hoping this would be an easy one but I don't see it in the man page and couldn't find it googling. Is there a keyboard shortcut or even a console command I can use to clear the scrolback buffer ...
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bash save history without exit
in linux ubuntu bash terminal. is there any way to save bash history without writing exit?
i've set the config to
"HISTCONTROL=erasedups"
which in my opinion works better than ignoredups.
anyways ...
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Terminal menu bar hidden
I unchecked the menu bar option in the View of the terminal on CentOS. Now this terminal menu bar is hidden. Is there a way to get it back?
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How to stop grep matching in terminal escape sequences (or colorize to multiple colours)?
I've written a bunch of scripts to colorize matches, like this:
$ echo abcdef | grepg c
ab[green]c[/green]def
$ echo abcdef | grepr e
abcd[red]e[/red]f
It also works when I chain it:
$ echo abcef ...
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How to remember multiple tabs' session in terminal in ubuntu?
I have opened many files in vim and there I am editing and tracing the program flow using ctags and I don't want to lose all those info in next reboot, I can't keep my system on for few weeks or ...
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Return to KDE after starting new terminal
I've just installed Arch Linux with KDE as a desktop environment. However after some initial steps I need to login as root so I hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and I was thrown into the terminal (black screen/white ...
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How to display escaped characters in tmux status bar
i am running tmux from a tty on an embedded linux device. (NOT a terminal emulator) because the screen is rather small, i want to add some "icons" to the tmux status bar. to achieve this, i have ...
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Enable Alt-tab in Windows running through Linux terminal
Tearing my hair out over this.
On my desk at work is a HP HSTNC-001L-TC terminal, and through this I connect to our server which has Windows Server 2008.
The problem is alt-tab doesn't work. I've ...
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How to switch to another window when Ctrl + B does not work for tmux?
As we all know tmux is quite nice tool, but there are some scenarios that Ctrl+B cannot be used.
For example, when I sshd to server A and now I connect to A's tmux pty. So Ctrl+B is captured by ...
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Replace OS X's shell commands with the linux versions?
The commands available by default in the Terminal in OS X, don't seem to behave like their linux versions. How can I replace all of them with the actual GNU linux commands?
For example sed -i ...
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Ubuntu pervasive RubyGems
Hey guys I downloaded the Pagodabox gem via
gem install pagoda which gives me the terminal command $ pagoda
From here I can run all of my fun pagoda commands like
$ pagoda -a app tunnel -c ...
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Infinite history in centos gnome terminal
I'm using Centos 5.x gnome terminal. I would like to know how to set the terminal to hold infinite history. It is possible in KDE terminal. Don't know how to do it in gnome.
Please help
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virtual machine just like another terminal window in Linux?
I would like to have a 64bit Linux virtual machine running just like another terminal window in my 32bit Linux Vx-enabled laptop. How can I do that? I don't need a GUI for the virtual machine, just a ...
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How to turn on/turn off leds by terminal?
I would like turn on/turn off some of my leds running a command on linux.
I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
I tried
xset led named "Scroll Lock"
xset led named "Num Lock"
xset led 2 (this is the ...
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PowerShell interpret linux terminal signals
I'm an admin using a Win7 desktop and I manage linux servers, many times editing scripts on the linux machines with terminal based editors like nano and vim, plus I do also do a great deal of GPU ...
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Strange characters in Linux console
I don't know how I've exactly managed to do this, but when I now invoke some commands (like man man or less) I see strange ESC[1 characters on the screen. It looks like this:
The interesting part ...
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Linux Locate Command false info
I am running Arch Linux and have used the "locate" command quite often to find files. I noticed today, however, that it is bringing up results from where the item has been in the past, not it's ...
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Highlight a single word *always* in a terminal
Is there a terminal emulator (like GNOME terminal) for linux/unix out there, which allows for highlighting a single word always (such as "highlight the word FAIL in red")? Or maybe is there a plugin ...
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How to prevent a command in the zshell from being saved into history?
In Bash I know putting a space before a command prevents it from being kept in the history, what is the equivalent for the zshell?
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How to remove string pattern using linux's terminal?
I would like to remove a string pattern which like this
You should not remove this /*This is the part should remove*/ You
should not remove this
I would like to remove all the text inside the /* ...
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Using Ctrl or Alt AND backspace to delete last word in Bash
In Linux I'm used to press Ctrl-Backspace to delete the last word but I don't know how to do it in Bash terminal.
In OS X I use Alt-Backspace to do the same thing.
Is there any way of making Bash ...
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double click/click-drag-release on terminal to select a text results CTRL-C
When I double-click in a terminal, for example xterm, konsole, to select text, it'll select text and then the cursor return. It's not expected because the cursor should be not be moved. I meet this ...
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Linux console output - pause after each screen
when I list directories with a lot of files with ls -la or tree -L 3 I get many screens of output. To read one screen after another I add | more or | less, but the problem with this is that the ...
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How to show output on terminal and save to a file at the same time?
I am using:
user@unknown:~$ sudo command -option > log
to save the results of "command" to the file "log", but I'd like to also get the result on the terminal, is this possible?
I am using ...
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How to run programs from a linux terminal without blocking the terminal?
Right now when I start a program from a terminal I can't use that terminal instance again until I close the program.
I am a new user of linux, and I want to know if there is a way to execute a ...
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How to switch to non-graphical view in ubuntu?
I've recently installed Ubuntu. It's graphical; how can I switch to command-line mode so that everything is to be typed, like DOS?
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How do I copy a link in Lynx?
I'd like to copy the current link to the system's clipboard or write it to a file.
If it isn't possible, I guess I'd have to settle with opening it in an external browser (which I was avoiding in the ...
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Terminal programs to replace desktop programs
What are the programs you use from a *nix terminal to be able to communicate in today's desktop world?
Suggestions
Terminal web browsers
Terminal e-mail clients
ASCII art renders
Text rtf/pdf/etc ...
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Google Search from Linux Terminal
I saw a Google console app someone wrote a while back, but it was actually a website emulating a console.
What I'm after is a shortcut or linux terminal app which I canuse to quickly search google.
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