The terminal emulator included in Mac OS X.
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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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1answer
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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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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 ...
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Newbie OSX problem in terminal with running a command on a file in a different folder
I'm trying to run a command on a different folder.
The command I'm trying to run is
\Applications\VirtualBox.app\MacOS\VBoxManage modifyhd
Windows98.vdi --resize 1000
Windows98.vdi i the the ...
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1answer
553 views
What should $TERM be on Mac OSX 10.6.6?
echo $TERM gives me xterm-color. Is that right? I'm having issues with vim and was told to change it to dtterm. Why?
I've learned that I can change this value in Terminal.app Preferences... under the ...
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Mac OS X Terminal get in Macintosh HD? For using Git and Github
I wanted to get started with using Git and Github especially for installing Web software to my htdocs directory. htdocs is the folder in which you put all your websites that then run by using MAMP -- ...
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1answer
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Weird behaviour/rendering of backspace in Terminal.app when SSHing into zsh using tmux/screen
I just stumbled upon a weird problem. When I SSH into my server (centos, zsh) and I type some stuff and hit backspace It looks like a space - but internally it really deleted the characters.
ls -l a
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Copy colored output from Mac OS X terminal
I see a nicely colored output in my terminal.
The terminal has a "Export Text As" command but it saves a plain-text file without the colors. Same with copy&paste.
Do you know a way to save ...
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name terminal/tabs
Is there a way to name a terminal window or even better give each tab a name.
at the moment they just get the underlying process name : for example a tab running elasticsearch gets the name java
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How can I automatically start two SSH sessions in two Terminal tabs?
In my Mac, how do I write a script that can do this?
Open "terminal".
In that terminal, "ssh myserver"
Open a new "tab" inside the terminal.
In that tab, "ssh myserver2"
Then, how would I run this ...
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Mac OS terminal : Select other device
I just can't figure out how to do this.
I'm quite beginner with the terminal, I have no problem to browse between files with "cd", but don't know how to browse a different device than my hard drive ...
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Ctrl-a echoes “^A” in Terminal.app
On a brand new macbook pro, the keyboard doesn't seem to act as expected for Terminal.app. I'm expecting Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e to be home and end functions, but I just get "^A" and "^E" echoed to the ...
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bash terminal - prompt cursor changes from $ to > upon entering invalid command
I used the Terminal application in Mac OS X to remove some hidden files (i believe this uses the bash shell by default). I inadvertently misspelt my command and, upon hitting the Enter key, my prompt ...
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Connect to another Mac via Terminal?
I need to connect to a Mac server from my MacBook using Terminal.app. If I open Finder, I can see it in my "SHARED" list. I can "connect as" an authenticated user and all that.
But how do I connect ...
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Where can I find the “terminal” program on OS X?
Where can I find this app, and where can I find instructions on how to use it?
My OS X is using the Dutch language settings.
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Terminal.app bash character echoing messed up
I’m having a problem with my terminal for a while now. It seems the combination of bash (or rather readline) and Terminal.app gets confused somehow when I hit the cursor-right key to exit ...
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Terminal missing in Mac OS X?
I am new to Mac OS. It seems cool, but I can't find terminal cmd utility on my Macbook. Is there any other way to find it or any other third party terminals available?
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Mac Terminal/iTerm history cursor problems
So often, I run a command in either Terminal.app or iTerm, press the up arrow to go back to edit it, and the cursor jumps to the line above or somewhere totally in the wrong place. It especially ...
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2answers
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Trying to silence Terminal Applescript
I have an Applescript that changes directory for the front Terminal window to the front Finder window. It works fine, but it also outputs text which clutters my terminal window.
Does anyone have any ...
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1answer
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How can I export all my Terminal.app settings from one Mac to another?
I want to set a group of terminal windows, each one with personalized colours, etc.
How can I move the whole Terminal.app setting from one computer to another? Where are they stored?
Can't see them ...
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Running processes through SSH? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I keep jobs running after logout?
I'm on a Mac and I SSH into my Ubuntu box and run node.js (or any other application), but when I close out of the terminal on my ...
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Cannot use F10 key in Midnight commander running in OS X's terminal
I connect to my server from Terminal in Mac OS X 10.5. When I run Midnight Commander there I cannot use function keys like F10 to close MC even I cannot use mouse to control MC. Any idea why function ...
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Mac OS X terminal.app sometimes sometimes starts interpreting newlines differently! Can this be fixed?
A few times now, I've had Mac OS X Terminal end up in an odd state, whereby newlines aren't interpreted as they normally are. It's as if they're doing the line feed part, but not the carriage return. ...
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What escape code do I need in PS* to make sure terminal is back in normal settings on shell prompt?
Sometimes I accidentally cat some binary data; sometimes some ncurses program crash - for plenty of reasons terminal can end up in bad state, requiring manual reset. This is happening too often.
Such ...
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Mac OS X Terminal.app reconnect
When I'm connection to a remote server via ssh inside a Terminal window, and I put the computer to sleep, when I come back the connection is of course interrupted. The problem is there seems to be no ...
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2answers
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Terminal Problems OS X 10.6.4
I commonly have long terminal commands and whenever I try to use the command history (by pressing the up-arrow) the text formatting becomes all garbled and the cursor appears in the wrong place. At ...
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Open, resize and position Terminal App
Dow anyone have a script that opens a new terminal window, resizes it and then positions the window somewhere specific on the desktop?
