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How to use Terminal to delete all .svn folders recursively?
what command can I type into Terminal so that I can:
delete all .svn folders within a folder (and from all subdirectories)
but not delete anything else
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Mac OS Lion Terminal: Add blank line after command output?
How can I configure my .bash_profile to add a blank line after any command output?
Thanks.
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Deleting file with reserved characters via SSH
While developing a server-side application, I accidentally created a couple of files that are named similar to this: files.json
Even after I add the necessary backslashes to try to rm those files, ...
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OSX Terminal Shell to Backup Website+Database [closed]
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i need to be write shell script in macosx
to backup my website files and database and compress it
and download locally to computer.
please help me.
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Setting iTerm2 as the default terminal (OSX Lion)
I would like to set iTerm2 instead of terminal.app as my default terminal.
Go2Shell for example let you open a terminal to the current directory in Finder.
I want to ba able to use iterm2 instad of ...
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No colors in Terminal.app
Somehow my colors in Terminal.app are completely borked. If I load up Vim with syntax on, there are no colors, but line numbers are underlined (and so are some other parts). It looks really really ...
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How to list network shared items in terminal
Is there a way to list the network shared items in the Terminal command line the way Finder sees them in the Mac OS X GUI?
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How can I externally open a terminal with specific “settings” in Mac OS X Terminal?
How can I cause Terminal to open a new window with a specific “Settings”, without having to mouse into the File menu, but rather by opening a file or running a command or AppleScript (i.e. something I ...
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Terminal cursor won't blink [closed]
My Terminal cursor was working just fine a couple of hours ago. Then I was playing around with the Terminal preferences, ~/.profile and /private/etc/bashrc and now the cursor won't blink (see note 1), ...
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Can you do any damage with “rm -R *” on a Mac?
I just cd to "/" on a Mac and accidentally entered "rm -R *". I know the command means delete everything in "/" but I wasn't sudoing, should I reinstall Mac OS? Or does a mac protect against this sort ...
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How do I make Vim beautiful (read: Textmate font/color ) on Mac OS X Lion?
I am just starting to make the Textmate to Vim switch. I love it, but it's so ugly.
I'm running Mac OS X Lion and needed Ruby support so I am using Vim 7.3 as installed via Homebrew not the Vim Lion ...
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How can you customize your terminal bash prompt with smiley faces?
I'm trying to figure out how I can customize my terminal's bash prompt to use smiley faces. What I want (as seen in the example blow) is for the cwd to be separated from the prompt by a \n and show a ...
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enabling colors in the python interactive shell on OS/X
I have just modified my .bash_profile so as to have colors in iTerm and Terminal.
Now, I want to enable syntax highlighting for the Python interactive shell, IDLE-style.
How to do that?
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Have a script execute a command randomly every now and then
I have a script which I am scheduling to run daily with Cron. However I want a certain section of the script to only run randomly occasionally, with a certain probability of executing on any given ...
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Why can't I open the easter eggs like Tetris on Emacs?
I am in terminal on a Mac, and I type in emacs tetris. It comes up with a blank page and something at the bottom saying: Loading image...done, but that is it. I leave it for a little while but nothing ...
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How can I stop OS X Lion from reopening multiple terminal windows?
How can I stop OS X Lion from reopening multiple terminal windows when I relaunch Terminal.app? When I launch terminal, two windows spawn.
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Why can't I paste from clipboard to OS X Terminal.app when it contains special characters?
For instance, if I have one or more of the following characters copied into clipboard, a paste into the terminal window will not work:
“ ” ’ –
This is pretty annoying, actually, one would think ...
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How do I change the computer id on my mac?
I bought a late 2009 Mac Mini recently, updated it to Lion, and was rather frustrated to find that even after changing the Bonjour, DNS, and local network name, the terminal prompt (and "Computer ID" ...
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On the Mac, how can I get saved Terminal window groups (or other saved window groups) to work across multiple Spaces?
I've got a nice startup script on my computer that opens up the various applications I need to get to work, making good use of Terminal's "Windows"->"Save Windows as Group"/"Open Window Group" option. ...
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Adding an alias to .bash_profile removes other commands?
Before touching .bash_profile:
mongod launches a mongo server, rabbitmq-server launches a rabbit server, etc.
But once I add:
alias ethertunes="sudo NODE_ENV=development nodemon --debug ...
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osx - Set application access to certificate via command line
I want to allow permanent access to certificates for certain app (eg codesign) via command line. The gui equivalent would be clicking "Always Allow" when prompted. However I only have access via SSH
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Can I scroll Terminal down when there is nothing to scroll?
When I reach the bottom line,
I want to be able to “scroll” down the virtual space so the prompt is at the top again (like in the beginning):
Is there any way to do this?
This becomes even more ...
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Can't copy/paste to/from system clipboard in Terminal on Mac
I can't copy or paste to or from the system clipboard within the Terminal. Neither Cmd-C/Cmd-V nor menus work. Instead, Terminal seems to be using it's own buffer for copy/paste operations. I am ...
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Switching terminal character encoding while using TotalTerminal
I'm using the TotalTerminal 1.1.3 terminal.app plugin on Lion (10.7.1) for a visor-style terminal. TotalTerminal uses/creates a special profile which is used for every new tab opened in terminal.app. ...
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iTerm 2 on Mac OS X - How to get rid of all characters before the $ on each line?
I installed iTerm 2 but my shell windows show:
"computer name":"current directory" "user" $
This is far too long. I'd like to just see:
"current directory" $
Is there an option for this? I ...
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What does Terminal app's “Show Alternate Screen” do? (OS X)
Today, I discovered a menu item called "Show Alternate Screen" in Terminal.app. I am just curious about what it does. It seems to be sharing the same shell process (unlike tabs), since I see output ...
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Mac Terminal Script to remove hidden files
My car stereo can use USB flash drives to play music from, so I asked about Copying MP3s from an iTunes playlist. That was all fine and dandy, except my stereo wouldn't play the MP3 files. I ...
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Hostname issue in Mac OS X Lion
I've recently bought myself one of the new mid-2011 Mac Minis with OS X Lion, I'm completely new to Mac OS but I've used linux quite a bit before. The problem I'm having is that at the terminal my ...
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Ctrl + A doesn't work in Bash Terminal on OS X Lion
In bash windows using the Terminal.app on OS X Lion, I can no longer use ctrl + A as a shortcut for going to the start of the command line. Other ctrl characters like ctrl + E don't work any longer ...
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Different Terminal color theme for remote connections?
Is it possible to set Terminal to use a different theme for remote connections. I often have several Terminal windows open at once for both local and remote work and it would be really handy to have ...
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OS X Lion man pages missing flags
I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 on Saturday, and have been restoring some of my applications that I build from source, when I noticed that the man pages are failing to render the command line flags ...
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launch application from osx terminal in 32bit mode
How can I pass an argument to the "open" command to launch an application from the terminal in 32-bit mode?
open /path/to/some.app [--args arguments]
I have to manually check and uncheck the ...
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Resume Zsh-Terminal (OS X Lion)
OS X Lion has "Resume" feature, i. e. when you reopen an app it restores all windows and their contents. That works for Terminal as well. But if you use Zsh instead of Bash it doesn't restore opened ...
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Use terminal scrollbar with tmux
I know how to scroll in tmux using the keyboard, but I noticed that it looks like there's a way to use the terminal scrollbar with GNU Screen. Can this be done with tmux?
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Is it possible to stream windows applications to Linux via VNC?
Is it possible to stream windows applications to Linux via VNC?
Need only some apps not a whole desktop.
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Where to learn more about OSX terminal app keyboard settings codes?
If you look at the Terminal->Preferences->Settings->Keyboard pane it displays how some keyboard keys and combinations map to shell strings.
The list seems really strange to me as it's missing a lot ...
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Capturing remote output locally in Mac Terminal
I want local programmatic access to ssh output in Mac Terminal.
First, I tried redirecting the output of each command to a file. The file was perfect, but of course it was on the remote server, and ...
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Mac Terminal Color Changes after ssh
Whenever I ssh to my linux system from Mac.
It started using remote system color.
Is there a way I can force it to use original color ?
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Making ls aware of “hidden” file flag
Is it possible to make ls aware of the hidden file flag on Mac OS X?
Currently, a simple ls -lO produces:
$ ls -lO
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@ 84 danielbeck staff - 2856 29 Mai 22:44 Applications
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On a Mac, how can I group together commands I want run into a alias?
In my .bash_profile I have created alias to commands that I run often.
What if I want to group together multiple commands together, and they should run in serial one after the other.
How would I do ...
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Mac: truly detach process from Terminal.app
On Mac OS 10.6.6, I want to make a bash alias or function that will run Google Chrome. Launching Chrome is easy: "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome". The problem is how to ...
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How to remove the scrollbar in Terminal.app on Mac OS X 10.6?
If there is a way. I know iTerm2 has it.
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How can I get the Snow Leopard Terminal app to act like the Leopard Terminal app?
The delimiters for double-click text selection in the Leopard Terminal app (version 2.0.2) included slash (/) and period (.) -- the delimiters for double-click text selection in the Snow Leopard ...
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Cannot open Terminal in OSX
I inconsistently cannot launch the Terminal application. It will bounce up and down and then never come online. Other applications are running... This behavior is a recent one.
If I reboot my system ...
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Terminal.app characters set changes — completely illegible
I was just ssh'd into my server (Ubuntu 10.04.2), and I ran aptitude (in interactive mode). Once I pressed one key (one of the letters, g I believe), it turned into this (not just the SSH session; ...
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Changing OS X bash/terminal to a dark scheme
I followed the directions here and the colors are correctly showing, however the background is still white, what else do I need to do?
Note: I did a sudo nano ./bash_profile instead of .bashrc
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How to prevent Terminal.app from closing when ssh is running?
Usually if a program is running in Terminal.app, when you try to close it it will give you a warning "Do you want to close this Window?" This happens to almost everything that I have tried, including ...
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Terminal.app fonts broken on Mac Snow Leopard
About an year ago I installed gnome fonts on my MacBook Pro and I use them for Terminal.app
Today I was using Terminal with three windows open and suddenly the app has quit (I don't know if I ...
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How can I prevent OS X Terminal.app from overriding vim colours on a remote system?
As my primary workstation, I use a mac running OS X 10.5. I spend much of the day ssh'd into remote systems and am working on grokking vim. One of the things I want to do is experiment with different ...
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Display Unicode Tetris boards in Terminal — or how to dynamically decrease line height
I am using black squares \xe2\x97\xbc◼ and white squares \xe2\x97\xbb◻ to display tetris boards in my shell. Unfortunately there is quite a visible line spacing between rows and that just doesn't look ...
