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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Keep command line visible while scrolling
Unsure what the best place to tackle this would be .bashrc? Using different shell? Some fancy terminal emulator?
Basically, I just want to keep seeing the command line / the last line of the terminal ...
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Can't use terminal, I keep getting "zsh: command not found: npm" even after an OS re-install
I don't remember what I had done, but every time I attempt to run a command (npm install -g gulp) in terminal, it returns a zsh: command not found: npm. This is a command I previously had no issue ...
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Remove all files with name starting with single quote
I need to delete all files with these names (the quotes are part of the name):
'index.html?some-query-string'
I tried with:
rm \'index.html?*\'
I get this error:
rm: cannot remove ''\''index.html?*'...
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How do I delete files with "- copy" in the name using wildcards?
I have a problem, which appears that How to delete files with specified text in their names? would delete what I don't want deleted.
Because of an issue with OneDrive after installing an extra ...
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How do I make a command line always show in front of another app
let's say I only have one monitor and I open an IDE and a powershell window. I need to type words in the IDE's current tab while watching the conent of the command line.
The problem I have is, ...
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linux command line, rearrange djvu file to facilitate book index use in reader
To read books that have an index on my laptop or ereader, I like to make the first page in the reader/viewer be the first page of the text, so that the book's Index page numbers correspond directly ...
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How to simply cleanup a filename?
OS: Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS x86_64
to display above:
neofetch --stdout |grep 'OS:'
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How to simply cleanup a filename, not file contents?
by removing from a filename:
\n newlines
\t tabs
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Any way to add playlists with Apple Music streaming content to Apple Music library from command-line?
It's straightforward to add m3u playlists of locally-stored files to the Apple Music app from the command-line. Is there any way to create and add a playlist of streaming content to the library, for ...
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How to auto power on windows laptop when lid is opened from shutdown state just like hibernation state?
It has been observed that most laptops power back on by themselves upon reopening the lid if they were in hibernation mode.
However, this behavior is not replicated when the laptop was in full shut ...
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How can I completely delete a user in Windows via the command line? [duplicate]
There is a user Alice that logged in a lot of windows machine using your AD account. In every computer, the windows create the user's files like: c:\users\alice
Now I want to complete remove this user ...
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Removing User Account through Registry using .BAT [duplicate]
I am not the best at scripting but do know enough to write and modify to do what I want.
This is an Enterprise environment and after adding a computer to the domain, we would like to delete the user ...
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How to use ffmpeg speedup video specific time range in one line ffmpeg cli
I try following splited cli, they work well
ffmpeg -i "$input_file" -filter_complex "[0:v]trim=start=0:end=10,setpts=PTS/10[v1];[0:a]atrim=start=0:end=10,asetpts=PTS/10[a1]" -map &...
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Broken pipe, write error: An epidemic of unnecessary output
In the last few months, a problem has been spreading across my systems. That of broken pipe errors:
# Solution:
# silenced by replacing /bin/bzip2 -> bzip2-reference
# to /bin/...
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An incorrect path is displayed in my custom command line prompt in bash
I would like to display the current and parent directories in my Linux command prompt. For example, if the current directory is /home/user/proj/src, I'd like the prompt to display proj/src.
I found ...
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How to delete domain from laptop through cmd prompt
Hi I just brought a latitude 5330 laptop and when I charged it up and turned it on it is locked to a domain.
I have the login details for the local account but there is no where to log in to it on log ...
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Update Google Chrome extensions from the command line [closed]
How can I update Google Chrome extensions from the command line?
I'm running macOS 12.7.4.
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Why can I get a ftp file by navigation, but not through full path?
I an trying to download a file from an ftp server that is in a sub-subfolder. I could find in the expected place with FileZilla but my program (trying to download using the full path) gave an error ...
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How to split a big folder into multiple standalone archives using RAR or 7-Zip console?
Example: I want to add a 100 GB folder to archives of 10 GB each using RAR or 7-Zip console on Windows. But each archive must be independent/standalone and able to extract without the other archives. ...
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batch findstr not working with string saved in a variable
I'm trying to find a string inside a file.txt using findstr and I have the following issue:
set "log_file=C:\Tools_Dev\log_file.txt"
a-findstr C/:"text to find" %log_file%
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How can I use the last changed file as an argument in linux?
I'm thinking of using the last changed file as an argument to commands like ls, echo, or cat, is there a simple and efficient way? this question arose when I was faced with analyzing the latest log ...
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Disable auto-complete Linux
How do I prevent multiple inputs from occurring when holding down a key?
If I hold down a key like an arrow key it will repeat the key event rapidly. To prevent this I have tried
xset -r 103 r off
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How to bring a job to foreground and then disable job control in bash?
I have a program running in a terminal window. I wish to disable the Ctrl+Z shortcut from suspending the process.
After pressing Ctrl+Z, the command fg && set +m unfortunately disables job ...
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What secure erase in the fastest way on Windows 10 with cmd? [duplicate]
I have a program in QT, C++ and I want to secure erase the computer after a trigger. After this process, I do not want the old data on the SSD to be accessed by data recovery programs. I want this ...
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Cmd 32 bit crashes but 64 bit works
I have tried to run a .net core 8 code that worked for me 3 days ago. But now it crashes with error related to access violation
Same code works on another computer
So i tried to look for the cause and ...
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Change album title and genre using additional command-line in Exact Audio Copy
The version of my Exact Audio copy is V1.3
I'm trying to change the genre and album title of the CD track using the additional command-line in Extact Audio Copy, but I'm not succeeding.
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Open new Google Chrome tab in a named window
I'm on Linux and I use scripts to open webpages. I also group my tabs into named Chrome windows, i.e. --window-name="Group 1".
How can I open a new tab in a specifically named window? ...
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Github Copilot CLI npm version vs gh cli version - what to use in future
There seem to be 2 variants of Github Copilot for CLI:
NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@githubnext/github-copilot-cli
part of GH CLI: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/github-copilot-in-the-cli/...
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Uninstall SourceTree using cmd or powershell
I would like to use cmd or powershell commands to uninstall SourceTree from windows 10 machines on my network. The reason I need a terminal way is that I have to do this remotely and simultaneously ...
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alias doesn't work in fish shell on macOS
I've been struggling with an issue that I cannot find mentioned anywhere and I cannot trace down. I can't leverage any of the alias command functionality in fish, which also breaks fish integrations ...
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How to safely store environmental variables and make it actually invisible in my PC?
I am learning about environmental variables. I know for example that if I have a secret password I should not code it inside of my code.
From what I understood is that a .env file should be used to ...
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OpenVPN disconnect without killing process
I am using OpenVPN on ubuntu like this sudo openvpn --config vpnconfig.ovpn --daemon
I am wondering is there a way to stop/disconnet OpenVPN connection I started without killing OpenVPN process?
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Exclude all folders containing "discarded" with 7z
When I do
7z a test.zip -x!*discarded* test
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test/
test/a.txt
test/subfolder/
test/subfolder/a.txt
test/subfolder/discarded/
test/subfolder/discarded/a.txt
test/subfolder2/a.txt
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Git Bash doesn't display characters correctly, using Visual Studio Code's integrated terminal
I use Git Bash as the default terminal profile on Windows. When I execute this command, I get the below output:
memlab run --scenario tests/oversized-object/index.js
> 'command' �����ڲ����ⲿ���Ҳ���...
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How to launch classic Outlook from the command line?
I'm trying to create a shortcut that launches Outlook's calendar in its own window:
So far I have the shortcut setup:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select ...
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Unsing ranger fm, how can I preview a file's thumbnail
I have images in HEIC format on my Synology NAS. I installed ranger in a docker container, and I can preview most videos and images (connecting using iTerm on mac), but HEIC is not supported.
Synology ...
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How to encrypt folder files using zip.exe [closed]
Example -path1 - desktop/file_source
Path2 - desktop/e_data_source.
How can we encrypt files from desktop/file_source to desktope_data_source path using zip.exe in cmd.
Could you please help me.? Is ...
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Command prompt is located in the wrong position on the screen
Multiple windows are opened in my tmux. In most windows, the command prompt is located at the bottom of the screen like this:
However, in one window, the command prompt got fixed in the middle of the ...
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How to properly escape in windows command shell - even the asterisk?
By following good (though sometimes conflicting) advice such as
Quotes, Escape Characters, Delimiters - Windows CMD - SS64.com or
Escape character – Wikipedia, section 2.6 Windows_Command_Prompt or ...
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Batch script to re-size JPEGs in music folder to 350x350 and delete unwanted files
I currently use a script to rename music folders from eg. Taylor Swift - 1989 to a new folder Taylor Swift with a subfolder 1989 with all files moved into it.
I've also added a rename line to change ...
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How to get the return value of pipe and executable on Windows
I am running some unit tests which involve piping into my executable, like this.
cat text.txt | my_exe --options
Running these commands, how do I get the return value of my_exe? Even when my_exe ...
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Issue while Concatenating TXT Files
I hope you're all doing well.
I have a simple command-line prompt that I use on Windows to concatenate all TXT files into one file named "merged."
copy *txt merged.txt
However, I've ...
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How can fzf's command history search always be shown, automatically and without CTRL-R?
With fzf you can press CTRL-R to have a command history search box shown below the prompt and fuzzy search. I want it shown automatically for each new prompt, without having to press CTRL-R.
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Failed to enable unit: Invalid argument systemctl enable .service
I have made a startup_test.sh with the following contents
cd /home/xyz/Desktop/
gnome-terminal -e "bash -c ./efg"
#desktop folder contains an executable named efg.
If I run gnome-terminal -...
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How can I complete individual command line phrases / do partial completion with fzf?
With fzf I can press CTRL-R to search my command history but it completes the whole command. What I'd like is to just complete the current argument, the next phrase before the next space. Can this be ...
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How do I solve the "PuTTY X11 proxy: No authorisation provided" error?
I am trying to run firefox on a remote server over ssh and use X11 forwarding to open the window on my laptop, but when I try to it throws the "PuTTY X11 proxy: No authorisation provided" ...
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Passing a variable to a variable within a batch file
I'm grabbing a value from the registry assigning it to %%b and trying to pass %%b to another area within the batch file as shown below.
But it comes out as %b.
It does not pass the variable a second ...
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docker-compose output format has changed to long, how to get back short output?
Output of docker compose ps command in docker compose version v2.20.x and earlier was short, since "COMMAND" column was truncated:
$ sudo apt-get install 'docker-compose-plugin=2.20.*'
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Why does zip --exclude only exclude files in the folder but not the folder itself?
I have the following command run in the bash shell which excludes the files in the folder scripts/. I tried the answer in Zip command for excluding directories and files but unfortunately it did not ...
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What is wrong with this "move" command?
I am trying to use command in Windows 10 as administrator to move 27,000 HTML files from one directory to another. When I use the command it reports that there is a syntax error. So what is wrong with ...
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How to grep on mysql CLI command output?
mysql> SHOW SLAVE STATUS\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Slave_IO_State: Waiting for source to send event
Master_Host: xx.xx.xx.xx
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