Questions tagged [command-line]
An interface for interacting with a computer using typed commands in a text-oriented environment, as opposed to a graphical user interface (GUI).
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How can I cancel reverse search without losing text typed?
When using reverse-search (Ctrl-R) in the bash terminal , I can cancel the search using either Ctrl-C or Ctrl-G. Both these options will clear the text typed while searching.
However, the most common ...
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How to make robocopy delete excluded files in destination directory
I have a cross-platform build toolchain which copies some folders to destination. I use robocopy on Windows and rsync on macOS because they support console progress output. The commands were in this ...
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How do I install Nix on a custom directory?
I have been trying to follow the Nix wiki to install Nix on a custom path /scratch/gopinath/nix. The /nix path is not accessible to me due to the restrictions on the system provided by my university. ...
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Stopping a scheduled task with a batch file action doesn't stop the program running in the batch file
I have several scheduled tasks that each execute a (different) batch file. Each batch file calls into the same program, with with separate command line arguments. If I Stop a task while it's running, ...
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Unintentional vi mode in iTerm on Mac?
I occasionally find that while working in iTerm the default Readline key bindings are replaced with the vi keybindings.
For example, I will try to go to the beginning of the line with ctrl-a, and ...
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VBoxManage: error: Cannot read the partition information from '/dev/disk0'
I'm trying to make a partition .vmdk file for Virtual Box. Basically I want to boot my bootcamp partition box up in Virtual Box. But I get the following error when I try to make the .vmdk file
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How to quickly & easily toggle touchpad on and off on a windows 10 laptop?
I am wondering if there's a way to easily toggle the touch-pad on and off on a windows 10 computer that doesn't have a location on that can be tapped to do that action (upper left corner of the touch ...
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Stopping creation of .localized files
Some folders on my new Mac has .localized files in them.
I know they are related to localization (duh), but I don't need that, in fact I specifically want everything file system related to be ...
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How to copy unsupported data streams with ffmpeg?
Briefing
I have some .wmv files (actually, my full batch file deals with multiple filetypes) with weird data streams that are needed for an external program to recognize them.
I'm trying to remove ...
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Get current working directory of another process
I have a PID, and I am trying to determine what the current working directory of the process is. I played around with wmic process for a while, but it doesn't seem to have the cwd available. Anyone ...
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Why my command prompt is not recognizing 'netstat' as a command
I want to figure out my running ports in Windows 10, but when I write command
C:\> netstat
in the console, I get the following error
'netstat' is not recognized as an internal or external ...
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What’s the command line equivalent of strace on Windows?
I need to | findstr SomePATH in order to search if a program access and close immediately a specific path. On Linux, I would use myprogram | strace 2>&1 | grep SomPATH.
But what’s the ...
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Ignore certain changes in git diff
Is it possible to get a report from git diff or related commands that excludes a certain category of change?
I've been asked to review a change where a huge number of files have undergone the ...
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How to NOT Terminate Batch Job
in my power shell command prompt when I run a command and pressing ctrl + c a message appears asking for Terminate batch job (Y/N)? no matter if I enter Y, or N or n, it terminates the job.
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Create an alias to a samba share from the command line
I'm currently wanting to deploy a setup to around 300 Macs. I have all of it scripted and ready to deploy, excepting that I'm having trouble creating a working alias to a samba share from the command ...
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How to change windows settings programmatically?
The following are the categories of settings in windows:
Each has their own set of sub settings (sometimes nested too), as shown in the following picture:
Whenever I format my computer I change a ...
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Google Chrome - Open Tab and add to group - commandline
Is there a way to launch a new tab in Chrome and have it added to a specified tab group from the command line?
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Is there any way to turn off tamper protection using command line?
I work with many test PCs, so I want to automate the procedure for installing OS and setting up.
Disabling anti-virus is one of the set-up steps via the below, with it working well for a while, but ...
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How To Stop Cmd Window From Scrolling Down Automatically
I'm making a batch file that runs some ffmpeg commands. When ffmpeg is encoding, it shows you the progress of the encode, updating it every second or so.
The problem is that sometimes I want to ...
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How I get my command prompt to show just the name of the folder I'm in (not the whole path))
In a command prompt window (terminal), how can I get my prompt to be just the current folder?
e.g.
prompt $p $g
gives:
C:\Users\Robin >
But I want it to just show:
Robin >
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Access key pairs in a macOS keychain from the commandline
I created a key pair in like this:
security create-keypair -a dsa -s 4096 FooBar
Now I want to access this key from to the command line to actually use it (in .pem format if possible). However, ...
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How to install greasemonkey user scripts into Firefox by UNIX command line
I want to avoid manually navigating using Firefox browser in order to add a Greasemonkey userscript by navigating to that script on a website. That is very cumbersome if I want to add a bunch of new ...
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How to get uncompressed content when using recursive wget?
i am downloading many single pages with all static content (js, css, imgs...) via wget recursive. It showed up, that served content, which was compressed (gzip), is stored by wget in compressed form. ...
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How to access KDE's camera:/ from terminal?
KDE's device notifier detects my GoPro Hero camera correctly and allows me to access its contents in dolphin through the URI camera:/.
Is there a way to access the camera also from the command line? ...
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Ruby commands are turning off tty echo
After running Ruby scripts, almost 100% of the time, the bash command line will appear to be inactive, while in fact it's silently accepting my keystrokes without showing them to me.
This has ...
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How to properly concaternate two audio files together?
I ripped two Blu-rays and I'm trying to combine the audio from both into one file. I've decoded it from DTS-HD MA to Wave64, and I used avisynth to remove the black screen audio (4 seconds) from the ...
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Shell commands as background image
In many terminals and terminal emulators, it is possible to specify a background image. I've seen some setups where-in this background image was even dynamic. Is it possible to watch a preset command ...
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Command prompt uses 4x6 font for non-1 sessions, 8x12 unavailable
I have a proble with Windows 8. If the current user session isn’t the first session started after a cold boot (basically meaning a restart in Windows 8), the console windows use very tiny 4x6 terminal ...
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How to add files to specified folder in archive with 7zip command line
I have folders and files on my disk
C:\builds\main.exe
D:\components\a\testa.exe
D:\components\b\testb.exe
D:\components\c\testc.exe
D:\dependencies\abc.dll
Can I create an archive with 7z command ...
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scale pdf to exact size
I need a program for Linux which can scale pdf files to a specified size, stretching them if needed. I would prefer a command line program, but something with a gui is ok too.
I found a lot of ...
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Command to see what version of HDMI
Is there a windows command to determine which version of HDMI specification is available/implemented on a given video adapter or other HDMI information?
Software utilities are also welcome.
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Console program randomly freezes
On my Windows10 laptop, I run a simple USB camera snapshot program, commandcam.exe (from https://batchloaf.wordpress.com/commandcam/), in a console .cmd script, which has one line:
FOR /l %%i in (1,1,...
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How can I open a file in drawboard pdf via command line? (Windows Store App)
Usually you can open a file with an app by passing the file as the first command line argument
programe.exe file.pdf
For Apps from the Windows Store it seems like you have to use a different method. ...
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Open a new tab in Chrome or switch to an existing one with the same URL (cmd)
I've been looking through chrome.exe's parameters and switches but couldn't find anything usable for this purpose:
Open a new tab from CLI or focus on an existing one if the URL matches
Example: ...
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Windows 10's SSH Client can't paste tilde and backtick
I'd like to use Windows 10's SSH Client so I don't have to install other programs to ssh but it is impossible for me to paste the tilde character (~) and the backtick (`), they are just ignored.
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PATHEXT environment variable not working
I want to use gcc on Windows, so someone gave me a MinGW folder. I put the D:\software\MinGW\bin\ folder in my PATH. But when I open a new CMD and type gcc, I get
'gcc' is not recognized as an ...
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Delay in starting command prompt
There is a weird problem with my command prompt.
Whenever I start it, there's a delay. The windows opens quickly as it should, but there is a Blank Time, before the command line displays this message:
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Performing network connection "diagnose" / "troubleshoot" via command line in Windows
Is there a way in command line to do the steps that Windows 10 does when you right click a network connection and choose "diagnose" or when you tell it to troubleshoot a connection?
I'm ...
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Opening URL in specified Firefox profile from command line
Is there a way how I can let Firefox open a link in new tab from command line for specified profile? Ideally in a way in which it doesn't matter, whether Firefox is already running or not
I know I can ...
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Installing fonts with PowerShell commands in all users in windows 10
I want to make an unattended Windows 10 x64 LTSC (1809). I've installed a number of fonts with Powershell via the Powershell script in the following repository:
here
That worked fine, but that work ...
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All command line terminals on my PC [Windows 10] run incredibly slow. CMD, Git Bash, VSCode Terminal
So, since yesterday, my terminals have been running super slow. Slow to start up and slow to run commands. Running a command takes over one minute. Takes like 5 minutes to start up. At first I thought ...
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losetup does not find first unused loop device and fails to list busy devices
$ sudo losetup -f ~/vhost/.test_04
was hanging (sat for an hour without finding the next available loop.)
So I checked by hand
$ sudo losetup -f
/dev/loop1
That looked to be functioning as expected,...
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Console as desktop background in Windows 10 / Server 2016
I want to replace the default image/slideshow desktop background with a usable console (cmd, powershell, whatever). This console should behave the same as a normal desktop background, i.e. it should ...
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Cannot zip a mutli-part archive, zip -FF command failing with out of memory error
Command zip -FF xxx.zip --out final_xxx.zip Fails with zip error out of memory or zip error : cannot split, read, write, file is too big.may be result of bad comrpression , try -fz
I do not how try ...
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How to automount an ext filesystem in macOS
TL;DR This question is about auto mounting partitions with file systems non native to macOS.
I'm presently running macOS 10.12.x and I can successfully mount an external SATA disk formatted with an ...
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Create a symbolic link to a named pipe
Let's say some application exposes a named pipe with the name "Pipe1". If I want to express the named pipe as a file path that can be used for writing or reading, the path \\.\pipe\Pipe1 or \\?\pipe\...
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curl (and openssl) two way authentication always fails
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I'm trying to use curl to send a POST request to a web service deployed on tomcat with host and client verification is required (two way authentication) but I always get the response 404 Not ...
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Output of nettop command
I want to calculate net transfer of bytes(in & out) for every 2 seconds.
I'm using nettop to know the usage(bytes_in and bytes_out).
Command:
nettop -x -k state -k interface -k rx_dupe -k ...
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How to enable Mobile hotspot (from Anniversary Update) in command line
I want to enable new Mobile hotspot from Aniversary Update in command line same way as from the Window's Settings. I know that there is
NETSH WLAN start hostednetwork
but this command doesn't enable ...
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Batch execution error "not recognised as an internal or external command"
D:\temp\copyTXT.bat is a simple script containing:
XCOPY /v D:\temp\MyFile.txt D:\Documents\
Executing the script fails, flashing a window for ~100ms, then does nothing (no copy at all), but if I ...
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