Questions tagged [terminal.app]
The terminal emulator included in Mac OS X.
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Can I exclude some folders when using the “find” macOS terminal command?
When using the terminal command "find /directory path/ -type f | wc -l" is there an argument that I can insert that will exclude from the count any folders with a specific name (and thus ...
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How to check current Terminal emulator is Alacritty?
I'm tuning Vim settings(.vimrc) and since the built in Terminal.app on MacOSX doesn't support true colors, I have to detect whether current terminal is Alacritty or Terminal.app then decide whether or ...
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Display tilde (~) instead of home folder name when at home in macOS Terminal (zsh)
How do I have
~ $
instead of
myUsername $
in zsh? My bash displays like the former and I like it because it looks cleaner.
My .bash_profile
export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1
export PS1="\...
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What is the terminal for apple screen time?
Quick question. What is the terminal term for Screen Time? I have tried to find it using 'help', but it will not show me any commands related to screen time.
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How can I batch convert a directory of subfolders from FLAC to ALAC?
Right now I'm converting each folder in Terminal manually using the following command,
for i in *.flac; do echo $i; ffmpeg -i "$i" -y -v 0 -vcodec copy -acodec alac "${i%.flac}"....
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“no such file or directory:” - how to remove directory from .zprofile
I recently uninstalled homebrew from my Mac (macOS 11.2) and since then my terminal opens with the following message:
/Users/lukas/.zprofile:6: no such file or directory: /opt/homebrew/bin/brew
I ...
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FFmpeg multi input remux multi output…no such file or directory error
I've been trying to use this to remove the audio from multiple files in the same directory and remux them back in a different location. Hoevewer I keep getting the "'/myfolder/stuff/*.mkv'" &...
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Resetting the PRAM on a PowerMac G5 using Terminal 1.5.1
Need to reset the PRAM using Terminal 1.5 on a PowerMac G5 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger.
However, when I enter the command in Terminal:
sudo nvram -c
c in not an option for that version of Terminal....
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How do I go about removing a built-in application on MacOS Catalina 10.15.6?
Here are the things I've tried...
I'm within /System/Application, went into Finder and was able to change permission to custom and have set both Admin/Everyone to Read/Write.
Disabled SIP
Became root ...
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'Make text smaller' actually reduce the size of the window with terminal or iterm2 in mac, instead of the font size
If I am in full screen mode the shortcut cmd+ and cmd- increase or reduce the size of the text, as it should. Otherwise the shortcuts just reduce or increase the size of entire window, they don't ...
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How to uninstall iTerm form the mac?
How can I uninstall iTerm from my Mac? I searched a lot on the Internet but I didn't find any helpful Informations.
I want to mention too that I installed iTerm without using Homebrew.
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How do I open URLs in the background of an existing Chrome window with Terminal on MacOS?
Currently I am building an iOS shortcut to open multiple links through SSH on my MacBook and I am wondering if it is possible to open URLs in the background of Google Chrome without losing focus of ...
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Operation not permitted using Find in macOS Terminal
This is a lead-up to my main question here (Fully uninstall Norton from mac)
I get "Operation not permitted" when running "sudo find" in terminal on macOS.
I have given terminal ...
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Fix mac terminal to original state
Recently I planned to tweak to mac by installing iterm2. Post-installation I have noticed some weird characters on my mac terminal which is bothering me. Is there I way that I can get restore my mac ...
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“other” storage in Mac is 27gbs after clean install of BigSur beta
I downloaded and installed macOS Big Sur beta. I did a clean install and in my storage I have 14gbs used by the system and the "other" is taking 27gbs and I can't seem to find out what is ...
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Automator/Terminal/Apple Script: Fetch data from macos console app
I want to use automator or terminal to fetch data from the mac console app.
In particular:
If you search for "sleepwake" in the console app › tab "Mac Analytics Data", you get the ...
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Time Machine: tmutil compare gives always 0B as result
i had several time machine backups. The most recent drive failed. I wanted to compare an older backup to my current Mac OS internal drive.
Usually, you would use
sudo tmutil compare
however it gives ...
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new tab doesn't work as intended in zsh
I want to open a new tab in same directory but it always move home directory. e.g.(~/sample press cmd + t, then ~)
These are results of commands which seems to relevant
cat /etc/shells
/bin/bash
/bin/...
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Anaconda on machine but conda command not found
I haven't used Anaconda in a while, I typed conda info into iTerm2 to read this error:
zsh: command not found: conda
I have copied the relevant .bashrc file information into the .zshrc file and still ...
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My terminal doesn't end the process (EOF)
I'm running a "go" program, which stops to asking inputs when I press Ctrl+d (EOF). But in my mac when I press Ctrl+d, it doesn't stop and it continues to ask inputs.
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How do I ensure bash *never* expands paths in environment variables when tab-completing?
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.3.48(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
I normally using the above bash version on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine via MATE terminal. Currently however I am using macOS 10....
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(Mac terminal) command line advice for extracting thousands of archives
I have literally thousands of archives containing Amiga adf files that I've downloaded and want to unpack them all.
Can someone please tell me the command line i need to use in terminal in order to ...
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Why is vim swapping case on forward-delete?
Vim + Catalina
I just switched to MacOS Catalina which has zsh and vim 8.1 out-of-the-box.
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Dec 13 2019 14:45:40)
Included patches: 1-503, 505-680, 682-...
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Is there a way to recursivly set “Snap to Grid” as a folder setting in finder?
macOS Catalina
I have noticed that when I create a directory it does not inherit "Snap to Grid".
Is there a way to make it that a folder inherits that setting or is there a command I can run to ...
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macOS 10.15.3: Cannot delete peculiar file
I have just moved on to a new MacBook Pro(15 inch, 2017), and I am trying to delete a very peculiar file:
/Users/tommy/Desktop/com.apple 07-11-49-482.SafariTechnologyPreview/SafariFamily
rm doesn't ...
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Chrome wont open links from Slack or Terminal on MacOS Mojave
When I click on links in Slack or run terminal commands like Jupyter Notebook, which previously have prompted Chrome to open a link, no link opens in Chrome.
macOS Mojave
Chrome 78.0.3904.108
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Override MacOS Terminal Menu With Embedded Dash
I see a menu item in MacOS Terminal which looks like "New Tab with Profile - Homebrew". I'd like to override the Cmd-T shortcut which Terminal helpfully assigned to it because the last tab I opened ...
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Unable to switch to channels 12 and 13 using terminal “airport” utility on MacOS (in wireless-monitoring mode)
There is a terminal airport utility in MacOS that can be used for wireless diagnostics. Detailed here:
http://osxdaily.com/2007/01/18/airport-the-little-known-command-line-wireless-utility/
It can be ...
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Ping more than 56 bytes on macOS
I am on macOS and using terminal to ping. How would I be able to ping more than 56 bytes? I tried to search but was not able to find the answer.
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Can't Open .rtf When made in terminal 2013 MacBook Air Mojave 10.14.6
Whenever I make a .rtf in the terminal app, with the touch command:
touch FileName.rtf
I am only able to open the file with terminal and I am unable to open the file with any other program i.e. ...
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Installing Pygame on Mac 10.11.6
As the title suggests I am having trouble installing pygame on my Mac. I've tried a lot different solutions. Such as using the steps in Python Crash Course to looking on stack overflow.
I've tried:
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How do I keep using terminal while qlmanage is running?
I am using the command qlmanage -p (file) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null to open quicklook with a file and send both stdout and stderr to /dev/null. I would like the quicklook to stay up while I keep ...
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How to set up a keyboard shortcut to open Terminal on macOS FOR FREE?
Tried looking all over the internet, they all require buying third party programs that support the feature, or suggest programs that don't work for me. Like Automator.
Automator doesn't recognize ...
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Download a video from news website
I was on the local news today and would like to download the video from their web page. I have been strugling with terminal for an hour now. What is the best way to download a video like this?
https:/...
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Terminal (Mac) isn't behaving as it should on startup
Apologies for this rookie question, but I have no idea what to do or who to ask to try and fix this.
While following a Codecademy course and trying to set up Git, I did something that I can't for ...
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'man airport' executable in System Library but want it to be on /usr/bin/ fir global execution (MacOS
I want the binary airport command which is in
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/
to be in /usr/bin using sudo cp source dest but BSD OS prevents me from ...
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How can I select a line in the macOS terminal with keyboard shortcuts?
I've recently just switched over to macOS from Windows and I previously used PowerShell. In PowerShell, I could type out a command and hit ctrl/command a and it would select whatever I wrote, so that ...
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How do you kill a Mac Terminal process over and over?
So I am in terminal, and let's say there is a virus that reopens every time I go to terminal and kill the process (Using ps -ax) it just reopens with a new PID. So how do you use "bash -c 'while [ 0 ];...
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What is the 'Meta' key in Terminal.app?
What is the purpose of the 'Meta' key in Terminal.app? I see lots of questions about it, but nothing actually explains what it exists for. I see it as a menu item and on my MacBook's touchbar. Does it ...
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Why does PID of apps change/Is there a pattern?
Long story short, I'm trying to write a program in Python that will continuously run the command kill [PID of iTunes but from some testing with the command ps aux | grep iTunes | egrep -v "grep|...
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Can't highlight line of zoomed tmux pane if pane border behind it
TL;DR: I can't highlight/select a line on a Z pane if, on the unzoomed window, there is a pane border behind that line
I am using tmux 2.6, terminal.app, and High Sierra on a macbook pro (the ...
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OS X file system anomaly: "ghost '?' in file names and unexpected symlinks
I've never seen this before - only found it because Time Machine kept failing (on Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13.6). A similar question was asked
here ~7 years go but it was not solved (and he did not ...
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Move files two directories up & delete directories afterwards, using wildcards
I have a folder structure like the below.
1/data/f4aa9d39291bc37a7cacedfab656a941/x1.jpg
The first slot and the random string in the third slot vary depending on the folder. (Let's say for this ...
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(On a mac) - VirtualBox not able to access the .vmdk file for a usb virtual machine
When selecting my virtual disk in virtualbox, the error reads as in the photo.
I have done this successfully while "sudo -b"-ing the executable in the app, but I need the file to be under my user.
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Prevent Stretching of Terminal Background on MacOS
This may seem like a silly question, but I am modifying the appearance of the terminal application using the profiles menu on MacOS 10.14. I have a nice high resolution image that I have used as a ...
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Disabling bracketed paste mode also disables the 'p' key?
Since upgrading to 10.13 (I think that was the release), macOS has supported bracketed paste mode. This is extremely annoying, because I frequently find myself getting garbage characters in Bash that ...
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Use iterm2 or terminal app which can filter results, not just highlight results
Right now I am on MacOS, and I am using iterm2 as my terminal app. It's got some great features but one limitation is that when I use ctrl-f to search for something, it will highlight the results in ...
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Why does terminal output this every time I open it?
Every time I open Terminal, it outputs: -bash: e: command not found
Is that normal? If not, how could I remove this?
I'm using MacOs Mojave.
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Less seems to no longer accept mouse-scrolls in the Terminal in macOS
For a few years now, Terminal.app in macOS has supported mouse-scrolling with the less program, but today I noticed that it is no longer accepting mouse scrolls, and only works with the Up and Down ...
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How to remember the purpose of specific Terminal tabs?
I always have multiple Terminal tabs open, each with a different purpose. I want to remind myself what that purpose is by echoing something (stored in a variable) whenever that tab becomes idle. (By ...
