Questions tagged [console]
A combination of display monitor and keyboard (or other device that allows input) for system monitoring and administration.
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How to get the summarized sizes of directories and their subdirectories?
Let's say I want to get the size of each directory of a Linux file system. When I use ls -la I don't really get the summarized size of the folders.
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What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
I'm confused with the terminology. What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
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Change default code page of Windows console to UTF-8
Currently I'm running Windows 7 x64 and usually I want all console tools to work with UTF-8 rather than with default code page 850.
Running chcp 65001 in the command prompt prior to use of any tools ...
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How to copy text from Console2?
I just started using Console2 as an alternative to cmd.exe
I can't figure out how to copy text from the console to the clipboard -- dragging over it with the mouse won't mark anything, and there is ...
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How to close a tmux session
I am using tmux to manage multiple terminal windows. Currently I have 2 windows open with multiple panes.
I know that I have to use the prefix (for me it is ctrl+a) to enter commands.
How can I ...
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How to force GPG to use console-mode pinentry to prompt for passwords?
Using gpg from a console-based environment such as ssh sessions fails because the GTK pinentry dialog cannot be shown in a SSH session.
I tried unset DISPLAY but it did not help. The GPG command line ...
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How can I change the input keyboard layout while in the console?
I need to change the layout of the keyboard while working in the console on Linux. I need to set up English layout as the default for the console. How can I do it?
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Run cURL commands from Windows console
Is there a way to install cURL in windows in order to run cURL commands from the command prompt?
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SIGTERM with a keyboard shortcut
I know that inside a terminal, Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut will send a SIGINT signal to the current foreground process. Is there a way to setup a keyboard shortcut for sending SIGTERM or even SIGKILL to ...
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Windows console with ANSI colors handling
Is there any console emulator for Windows that interprets ANSI coloring?
We use rspec and a part of our team use Windows and the special string for coloring are not very useful for them ;).
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How to open a terminal quickly from a file explorer at a folder in Windows 7?
This can be done easily in Ubuntu, just right click and open Terminal. It is very inconvenient to open cmd.exe then cd to the folder.
So, how do I open a terminal quickly from a file explorer at a ...
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How to stop kernel messages from flooding my console?
I'm using Centos 6, rsyslog logging. Console is flooded with kernel messages.
Klogd is not running (I'm using rsyslog)
Rsyslog config does not direct anything to the console
Even tried stopping ...
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Chrome: Hide Extension Errors in JavaScript Console
Is there a way to prevent extensions from showing up in the console of the developer tools window? It's annoying to be looking for JavaScript errors and have to ignore errors that are always there. I ...
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How can I grep with color in Mac OS X's terminal?
I recently found that on Mac OS X I can set this up in my shell ~/.profile so that when I use grep it will print the matches in color (white one red).
alias grep='GREP_COLOR="1;37;41" LANG=C grep --...
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Git Bash Here in Console2?
MSysGit installs a context menu item that opens a Git Bash prompt at the currently selected folder; however, this opens a cmd.exe window and I would like it to open in Console2 instead.
What ...
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Change Linux console screen blanking behavior
How do I change the screen blanking behavior on Linux virtual terminals?
For example, if I switch to a VT from X, login, and leave the system alone for 5 minutes or so, the screen will blank like a ...
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How to change console keymap in Linux?
I'd like to exchange Esc and CapsLock in console (not in X, and use xev), how can I do it?
My OS is Ubuntu.
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How do I change Notepad++'s console font?
How do I configure a fixed-size font for Notepad++'s console output?
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Change the DEFAULT console window font in Windows 10
How do I change the default console font in Windows 10?
I have already made the change to "Cmd.exe", but the problem is I also execute a lot of other console applications by directly executing them (...
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How can I open a new terminal window from a terminal in linux?
How can I open a new terminal window from a terminal in linux?
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interactive/visual merge tool for console?
I'm a big fan of meld - a visual diff and merge tool for Gnome. It shows two files (or directories) side-by-side and with their differences highlighted, and I can easily select which parts I want to ...
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How to set terminal size in Android adb shell?
When I connect to Android using "adb shell" and run certain commands such as "vim" or "mc", they are restricted to a "window" of 25x80 characters. Since I'm connecting from a desktop computer where ...
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Automatically executing commands when a command-prompt is opened
I am looking for a way to execute some console commands automatically when a command-prompt is opened in Windows, specifically to set some command aliases.
For example, when a command-prompt is ...
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How to change the Windows XP console font?
I have been using Cleartype and Vista fonts on Windows XP for quite a while now. I love the Consolas font for working with source code. I would love to have it as the font of my Windows console (...
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Console like Gnome Terminal for Windows [closed]
I'm looking for console like the Gnome Terminal for Windows to replace cmd.exe. I'd like to have tabs and easy copy&paste. Do you know a tool like that?
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7-Zip command line to extract a folder from an archive
I'm using the 7-Zip commandline to extract a ZIP archive called abc.zip which is an archive with a folder called 'zipper' with three text files in it (a.txt, b.txt, and c.txt).
My problem is when I ...
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(When) is CONHOST.EXE actually necessary?
Background
Last year I compiled a portable blog/web-server system that I can run from a flash-drive. It’s great and works wonderfully, especially on XP. The problem is that when it’s run in Windows 7,...
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SQLite with readline support on Ubuntu
I had the sqlite3 package installed on Ubuntu and there's no support for readline. That means there's no command history and those other nifty features readline gives you.
Is this a configuration or ...
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Change Linux Console's Default Monitor
Is there any way to specify which monitor the console is displayed on in Linux?
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I have a 3 monitor setup with 2 video cards. When I boot the computer, the BIOS displays on the PCI graphics ...
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Colored copy of PuTTY window
I need to copy colored text from PuTTY window without losing color information. Console is in UTF-8 mode. What is the best method? Any parsable output will do.
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Is PowerShell a complete replacement for console/cmd?
Right now I'm using the Windows console (cmd.exe) for some easy tasks (as checking my ip configuration or running some applications). But now I heard that there is PowerShell which actually is way ...
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fine-grained sudoers configuration (allowed commandline arguments)
is there a straight-forward way to allow a user to run (for example)
/usr/bin/pacman -S -u
as root, without allowing him to run
/usr/bin/pacman -S -u some_package
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The line
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Why does the ">" command in a Windows console not redirect all messages to a file?
I am trying to build a Scala project with sbt, so I run a command:
sbt clean test > log.log
Which means that any messages that the sbt tool writes to the Windows console should be written to the "...
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What is the 'conhost.exe' process that shows up in Task Manager?
The process conhost.exe started showing up on Windows 7, and searching Google doesn't reveal an explanation of what this process is and why it shows up.
What is the conhost.exe process?
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Is there a way to get iTerm + Bash usability on Microsoft Windows?
I've been using Bash for years and I really like iTerm. Is there a way to get that level of console usability for Micosoft's Windows cmd?
By that I mean the sane tab completion, history (even if you ...
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How can I restore a remote desktop session to the local console?
After I am finished with a remote desktop connection, I'd like to be able to restore the remote desktop to the local console so that the user doesn't have to re-enter the password and log back in.
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Is there a windows console emulator? [closed]
Is there any way to make Windows console less ugly? I imagine there might be some 32 bit application that provides a nicer UI, but delegates all calls to cmd under the hood. Is there such an app?
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Is there a way to alter the colors used in TTY consoles on Linux?
By "alter colors", I mean something like change black from #000000 to #111111, and by "TTY console", I mean what you get when you do Ctrl+Alt+F1 from X11, not a terminal emulator like xterm or urxvt.
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How does ls know how to output its results?
While creating a bash script, I found that this code ls puts all files on one line:
pi@raspberrypi:~/ptlrestinterface$ ls
update.sh web.config MyApp.runtimeconfig.json
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Turn off monitor (energy saving) while in text console mode (in Linux)
How to configure Linux text console to automatically turn of the monitor after some time?
And by "text console" I mean that thing that you get on ctrl+alt+F[1-6], which is what you get whenever X11 ...
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Copying contents of current directory to a subdirectory
How can I use the Linux terminal to copy everything in current directory to a subdirectory?
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Which are the non-x text editors in Powershell?
Are there some editors like emacs, vi/vim, specifically for power shell, if so which are the best?
I will have to do some work on windows and I need some unix productivity - which means for me
shell ...
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How do I read the console output of a Windows GUI application?
If I remember correctly, Windows applications can be compiled as console or GUI applications. One of the main differences is that console applications get a console automatically, while GUI ...
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Why do I get different results from Mac's shasum than from other shasum calculators?
I'm entering:
appletree:~ somename$ shasum -a 512 <<< test
And the output is:
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How do I host a mintty shell inside of Console2?
I like to use Console2 for my Windows shell work, where I usually make it open a cygwin bash prompt.
I'd like to try out MinTTY (2), and want to host it within Console2 as well. If this is possible, ...
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Can I pipe/redirect a console application through netcat so it can be used remotely?
Is it possible to 'pipe' an instance of a console application through netcat, so netcat is listening for a new connection and redirects the stdin and stdout over the network connection.
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Where are the keymaps in Debian? (Using loadkeys to change keymap.)
From the actual console (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F3), I'd like to use sudo loadkeys dvorak as in ubuntu. While that automagically works in Ubuntu, Debian wants me to locate a keymap file. I don't have the /...
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How to hide or minimize X11 window from console?
Window is full-screen and grabs everything.
New windows are appearing behind it.
I cannot just kill that application.
I'm logged in as root remotely through the SSH.
Expecting something like that:
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com.apple.launchd: com.apple.launchd.peruser error
It's been a couple of days I am reading these errors in the system log file.
25/11/11 21:31:43,373 com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.launchd.peruser.32697[92747]) getpwuid("32697") failed
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On Mac OS X how can I log to Console.app from the terminal?
I've seen the use of /dev/console in several scripts for Mac OSX but I'm not sure how it's being used. I checked Console.app and didn't see the results of my test command:
echo test > /dev/console
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