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macOS, the command line developer tool missing after updated to Monterey 12.6

My Apple MacBook pro M1 2020 automatically updated to Monterey 12.6 recently. With the update, I have to agree with an Xcode agreement/license. After that, I found both python and git are no longer ...
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"start chrome" working in command line without PATH variable

I tried executing "start chrome" in the command line and it opened chrome. I checked the PATH variables and nothing related to chrome there, how could it have worked? Is it different on your ...
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What's the alternative to "nc -l" for HTTPS?

You can run netcat in the "listen" mode: nc -l 8080 This will listen on localhost:8080, dump everything that comes in to stdout and reply with data from netcat's stdin. This is useful for a quick ...
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When run any flutter command return just cursor

I am new programmer trying to install flutter into windows 10. I am currently stuck. I have installed git and flutter as per instruction from flutter.io. Also added path variable on my user and system ...
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pdfchecker: command not found

can anyone help me to setup datalogics pdf checker in ubuntu 16.04 OS? I have tried to setup as per their setup guideline but I am getting command no found error while trying to access executable file ...
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How to put together a simple powershell script(or any other tool) to issue an API command (server standard 2016)

I have no programming experience on how to get this done, any help would be greatly appreciated So there is a command that if I paste into my browser it executes and the job is done. It is a JSON API ...
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How to save output of python-swiftclient to file when dowloading a directory?

When I download files from a cloud with python-swiftclient sometimes I get errors like this one: Error downloading object 'uploads/1/image.png': Object GET failed: https://orbit.brightbox.com/v1/...
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How to find files with the same name and remove all but the newest one in windows from the command line

I want to keep only the newest version of the files with the same name in a folder and subfolders. In other words, I want to remove duplicate files in a folder and subfolders, considering only that ...
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Bash: receive messages from background process

I'm sending data via cansend to vcan0, at the same time I'm listening to messages that has been send to vcan0 using the candump vcan0 command For some reason, i won't receive any messages, when ...
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brew install package asks to install command line tools from a path that doesn't exist

I messed up my command line tools. I already had them installed, I also installed the beta 2 macOS 10 version from the apple developers site because the command brew install putty was asking me to ...
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How to open launched executables as new tabs of command line tool?

It might be a simple question, but so far I haven't seen whether this is possible and how to do this. The batch of automatic tests I am running is launching a lot of command prompt windows which are ...
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GNU find delete files within a directory but keep the directory itself

I've been spending the better part of an afternoon trying to figure this one out. 🤔 I have a directory that contains several project directories, and within each project directory there is a ...
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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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Why does nano editor prompt me to "save changes" when nothing is changed, and can I change this behavior?

When I open a file in nano, if I add a character then remove it, so the file is exactly the same as it was initially, upon close I'm prompted to "save changes" and I have to type N for no. Is there ...
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heroku cli error: "fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

How to resolve this error with Heroku's command-line interface: -bash> heroku ps -a cool-app-name /Users/billy/.local/share/heroku/client/bin/heroku: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable /Users/...
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What's the tool used by Debian Jessie installer to configure wifi?

I just installed Debian Jessie. During the installation procedure, wireless network configuration is done in command line mode. The tool which assist the wifi network setup is pretty simple, it just ...
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Turn on/off volume from batch file or command Windows 10

I had a piece of code for windows 8.1 that turned the volume off/on so could put it in a batch file for startup. Need something for windows 10 if it's available
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How to create a burp shortcut on your windows desktop

I have been trying to figure out how to get a windows shortcut for burp. If anyone else can figure out a different way instead of java -jar -Xmx768m "C:\tools\burpsuite_free_v1.6.32.jar"
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Quick Method to install DevCon.exe?

As refered to by Microsoft: DevCon (Devcon.exe) is included when you install the WDK, Visual Studio, and the Windows SDK for desktop apps. But these programs take hundreds of MBs, and I don't ...
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How to get MBR Wizard 3.0 to work?

I've downloaded the program files. Am trying to get MBR Wizard's 3.0 CLI version to run from the command line and attempt fixing my corrupt MBR issue. I'm running Windows 7 as admin, keep typing the ...
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Getting "Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) could not be verified." error when updating from App Store

This is the error message after restarting when doing OS X update: "Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10)" could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading. Click ...
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Playing opus files under ubuntu

Opus is a new audio codec standard for audio on the web. Features include: Better compression than mp3/ogg/aac. Good for both music and spoken word. Dynamically adjustable bitrate, audio bandwidth, ...
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Interactive search of tmux sessions

When switching between tmux sessions with the interactive session menu (<prefix>-s), you can jump to a specific session by typing the session's numeric or alphabetical index, e.g. (0) + ...
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Make backups every N minute via Windows backup tool

Trying to make a backup of a certain folder with high frequency but the minimal option is day. Is this possible? I tried also cmd tool wbadmin but partial backups are not supported in it.
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Open source browser with command line option to check for errors retrieving the page?

I have a couple of TVs powered by Raspberry Pis - they have Raspbian installed and boot straight into Midori's full-screen mode. They display metrics and as such they should always be on and ...
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A tool for sending and receiving plain text via TCP? [closed]

For debugging purposes, I'm looking for a tool that can do the following: Connect to a TCP socket send plain text commands receive plain text answers Yes, of course telnet can do that. But my ...
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How can I remove or deactivate the Windows system32/find.exe?

I am trying to make my Windows System as compatible with existing Makefiles as possible. One great step that is missing is replacing the windows "find" (which is the same as grep) with the GNU find (...
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Utility to search file contents, open it, and go to relevant line

I’m looking for a tool that given a search string and some set files, would search every one of them for said string, and if it finds it, open the file and go to that line. Maybe this could be better ...
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CLI tool to graphically select lines during piped commands

Is there a tool similar to choose that I can plug into chain of commands that will let me select (multiple) lines for the next step? choose unfortunately doesn't "pass on" the line you select, ...
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troubleshoot ping failure due to denied MAC address

Does anyone know of a tool (Windows or Linux) that will identify packets that get dropped on a network due to MAC filtering? In question 682774 (ping-printer-times-out-when-wireless-ok-when-wired) I ...
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Running OS X command-line programs on Ubuntu

Given that Mac OS X is derived from BSD (Berkeley Systems Distribution) UNIX, I would assume that in some way or another, it would be possible to run command-line OS X programs on Ubuntu. I am really ...
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"wput" multiple files from command line?

You can upload a single file with wput: wput file ftp://username:passwd@ipaddress/file is there a way to upload multiple? Maybe something like: wput {file1,file2} ftp://username:passwd@ipaddress/{...
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Bash Resize Terminal Xterm

I am looking for a universal builtin command that resizes Xterm based terminals. This is some sort of command that won't make a new window, that I won't need to include in the file that these ...
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Linux Utility for "Timestamping" Functionality

wget's timestamping functionality ensures it only downloads files that have changed. I'm looking for a linux command-line tool that will recursively compare a directories contents with a saved version ...
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Command line tool for image conversion [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Free command line image converter I need a command line tool for windows which can be used to convert an image from any common format to 24 bit bitmap. I'm writing some ...
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I am getting “This program cannot be run in DOS mode” in Windows XP [closed]

In some Windows OS, every command line program works fine, but in some Windows releases—such as Windows XP— I get this error: “This program cannot be run in DOS mode.” How do I avoid this problem? ...
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Is it possible to retrieve magnet link via transmission-remote?

I'm running torrents on the home server, and I talk to home server via the transmission-remote utility. I'd like to retrieve the magnet link for one of my torrents, however this seems to be impossible,...
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Command line Linux any document format to PDF converter? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I convert this filetype to pdf? I am looking for tool to (similar to ooffice) convert to PDF. I know where from .odt can be converted to PDF. How about .doc or .docx? ...
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Long delay when I run a command for the first time in a DOS window

We run a server (Win2k) with several tools on it. The workstations (XP) all have their PATH set to include that folder. When we run a tool (e.g. grep) from a DOS box on a workstation, sometimes ...
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Is there any good desktop/application or command line tool to show two different timezone concurrently?

I want to find a desktop application or command line tool to show two different timezone concurrently under LINUX. Anyone knows there are such application? Say i want to know the time at london and ...
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How to get information about an image (picture) from the Linux command-line?

I'm working on a web app and currently migrating some stuff from an old app, but I hate that I have to open an image editor to get some info about images I'm migrating. Things like image dimensions. ...
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How can I get an interface's bandwidth at any given second from the Linux command line?

I am doing a school project in which I want to get the bandwidth of a network interface at any given second, or some other small increment of time. I need this for a Perl script I am working on. ...
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How to list the contents of a zip along w/ file sizes and compression ratio via cmd line

How do I list the contents of a zip along w/ file sizes and compression ratio (or packed size) on osx w/ command line tools?
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