Questions tagged [terminal]
A terminal is a hardware device used for entering data into and displaying information from a computer. Terminals were frequently used in the days of mainframe computers. Today, most operating systems offer text-based "terminal emulators", which replicate the functionality of a classical terminal, also referred to as a "system console".
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How do I detach a process from Terminal, entirely?
I use Tilda (drop-down terminal) on Ubuntu as my "command central" - pretty much the way others might use GNOME Do, Quicksilver or Launchy.
However, I'm struggling with how to completely detach a ...
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How do I find a file by filename in Mac OSX terminal?
I want to find a file on my Macbook with the filename: abc.dmg. I've tried to use spotlight, but it doesn't find it. When I tried find, and used: find -name abc.dmg -path /, I got errors back.
What ...
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In vim, how can I quickly switch between tabs?
In gnome-terminal, I can just press Alt + (1, 2, 3, etc.) to switch to specific tabs. I can also use Ctrl + (PgUp / PgDn) to cycle through tabs (admittedly less convenient, but it can be remapped).
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How to find files with certain text in the Terminal
I'd like to find all files that contain a certain string of text. How would you do that in the Terminal?
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Way to avoid ssh connection timeout & freezing of GNOME Terminal
When I connect via ssh to certain servers, it timeouts and "freezes" the terminal (doesn't accept input, doesn't disconnect, can't Ctrl-C to kill the ssh process or anything).
This is in Ubuntu's ...
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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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With Bash + iTerm2, how to name tabs?
In iTerm2 (Build 1.0.0.20120203), I typically open several tabs, each of which has split panes , and is about one particular theme of work, for example revision control, coding, managing files, mysql ...
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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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Why does terminal say: "You have mail"?
Any idea why my Mac terminal says:
You have mail in /var/mail/lofye
How can I make it stop saying that every time I open terminal?
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List the current folder folder's sizes with the terminal?
I want a list of the folders from the current directory or one that I specify with their size.
I have tried with du but I only get the size of the directories I specify (du . ./f1), and ls doesn't ...
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How to find out Mac OS X version from Terminal?
I know how to find Mac OS X version from GUI:
Apple Menu (top left) > About This Mac
Is there a Terminal command that will tell me Mac OS X version?
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Where is the .zshrc file on Mac?
I’m using iTerm and wanted to customize the look of my terminal window using Oh My ZSH!. And according to the documentation I need to change the ~/.zshrc file and add a ZSH_THEME value:
Once you ...
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Keyboard shortcut to jump between tabs on OS X Terminal
In OS X Terminal.app, if you open new windows, you can easily switch between them with Cmd-1, Cmd-2, Cmd-3, etc.
You can also cycle between tabs, using Cmd-Shift-{ and Cmd-Shift-}. (or Cmd-Shift-Left ...
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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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List files bigger than filesize specified
How can I make ls (or any other command) list only files bigger than a specific file size?
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Play sound on mac terminal
I have a script running in the background and sends me an alert every few minutes. I want the alert to be in the form of a beep.
Question: How can I play a beep in mac terminal?
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How to stop a process in Terminal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ending a process in unix instead of interrupting it
When I task in Terminal, such as ping blah.com, how do I then stop this task (other than closing the Terminal window. In ...
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What's the difference between ^C and ^D for UNIX/Mac OS X terminal?
When I try to stop something, I use ^C and sometimes ^D in terminal.
What's the difference between the two? Why some program doesn't respond to ^C, but ^D.
Why the Terminal.app just quits when I use ^...
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How do I close the Terminal in OSX from the command line?
Why doesn't "exit" close a Terminal.app window on Mac OS X?
$ exit
logout
[Process completed]
Is there a way to close the window without using the mouse?
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Is there a shortcut to mkdir foo and immediately cd into it?
This is something I do frequently
$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
This works as a single command, but it's more keystrokes and saves no time.
$ mkdir foo && cd foo
Is there a shortcut for this?
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How to switch git user at terminal?
I am trying to push a project to a remote repository from the command line.
From inside my local directory, I hit:
$ git push
and obtain the following error:
remote: Permission to username1/repo....
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How can I open a URL in Google Chrome from the terminal in OS X?
How can I open a URL in Google Chrome from the terminal in OS X?
This is what I'm trying:
/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" --args 'http://google.com/'
It focuses Chrome but does ...
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Previous commands wrapped with square brackets in OS X Terminal
Yesterday my terminal started surrounding commands that had been run with square brackets. I'm not sure how I've turned this on, but would like to turn it off.
Example:
So far, I've done:
Checked ...
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Mac OS X: conventional places where binary files should live
I've downloaded an application that is a command-line application, and want to put it somewhere where I can run it from the command-line without having to type the path explicitly.
What are the ...
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Delete entered password in hidden password prompt (Linux) with shortcut
Is there a way to delete all characters that I entered in a hidden password prompt in Linux? For example, when I SSH to a server, it asks for my password where the entered keys are not shown:
$ ssh ...
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What commands can I use to reset and clear my terminal?
I have been using the command:
reset
to clear my terminal. Although I am pretty sure this is not what I should be doing. Reset, as the name suggests, resets your entire terminal (changes lots of ...
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Icon? file on OS X desktop
When I ls my Desktop from terminal (by using ls ~/Desktop), I see a file named Icon?. As far as I can tell, it's empty (nano Icon? shows nothing). It doesn't show up on my actual Desktop, and open ...
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How do I find my user ID and group in Mac OS X?
Trying to run this compand in terminal:
sudo chown -R yourid:yourgroup local
However, I have no idea what my ID and my group are, or where to find them. Any ideas?
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Why are special characters such as "carriage return" represented as "^M"?
Why is ^M used to represent a carriage return in VIM and other contexts?
My guess is that M is the 13th letter of the Latin alphabet and a carriage return is \x0D or decimal 13. Is this the reason? ...
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Where to find the .bashrc file on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion?
I want to install rvm on my Snow Leopard machine.
It says I need to add a line to my .bashrc file (I'm using bash) but where is my .bashrc file?
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Undo OS X terminal window split
I constantly split my terminal windows accidentally by pressing Cmd+D (it's so close to Cmd+F). I have no idea how to undo this. Any ideas?
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Re-enter interactive mode after Ctrl-z
In interactive mode (in Octave, gnuplot, R, etc.) I occasionally press Control + z by mistake. This pauses the program and kicks me back to the terminal.
Is it possible to re-enter the original ...
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Access iCloud Drive via terminal
OS X 10.10 was just released, and one of the features I personally awaited the most was iCloud Drive. Unfortunately, I had to learn that it was not as accessible as Dropbox.
file ~/Dropbox
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Updating Time : ntpdate[3108]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
The time on my system is incorrect for some reason.
i need to run an update but i can't seem to be able to
this is the errror.
ntpdate pool.ntp.org
31 Aug 12:31:59 ntpdate[3108]: the NTP socket is in ...
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terminal tool (linux) for repair corrupted zip files
I've a corrupt zip file. I've tried to repair it with
zip -F file.zip
and
zip -FF file.zip
but was not successful. Is there another terminal tool under Linux for repairing?
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Terminal Command To Find What Version Of Git I Have Installed?
What is the terminal command to find the version of Git currently installed on my system?
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Using Ctrl-Tab to switch between tabs in Mac Terminal.app
How can I make Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab switch between tabs in Terminal.app on a Mac (OS 10.4 and 10.5 specifically)? This is how I switch tabs in Firefox and Aquamacs, and Command-Shift-[ and ...
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downloading file using scp command
I have a centos server lets say with ip: 1.2.3.4. I want to download a file from 1.2.3.4 at path /root/pc/filename.rar to my localhost host (current pc). What command I need to download that file? I ...
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Clear terminal using keyboard shortcut
I was curious if there is a way to clear the terminal buffer/output through some keyboard shortcut. I am using Ubuntu. I am aware that
Ctrl + L
clears the terminal, but you can still scroll back to ...
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How to get vertical split of terminal in Mac to execute different actions?
Every once in a while I see people using what looks like terminal in their Mac, except that in what seems to be one window they have a vertical 'split.' On one side of the split, they have emacs or ...
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Using vim to force edit a file when you opened without permissions
I use vim to edit a file. Sometimes, I forget to have the appropriate permissions. I run vim and the file as a read only file. I can make changes, but I can't actually write the changes. Every once in ...
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How can I change the keyboard shortcut for switching tabs in Mac Terminal?
I know that you can switch tabs with shift cmd [arrow key] in Mac Terminal, but it is painful to reach the arrow key. How can I change the default keybinding?
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iTerm2 (version 3): Individual history per tab?
I’m using iTerm2 (version 3) and like it. But something that it has been doing for a while that's really annoying is that the command history is shared between tabs. E.g., in your first tab, run ...
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How to disable scary terminal commands?
How do you disable scary terminal commands?
I was using SSH to access a remote Ubuntu server without access to the physical server. I thought I was typing 'shutdown' into the NoSQL server running on ...
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Copy a directory on Unix
How can I copy a directory structure, dir1, to dir2, (with all the subdirectories) on Unix using the terminal window?
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htop isn't returning CPU or memory usage!?
I think that top is great application to monitor a Linux system. I really like it, but top doesn't look so good on Mac. I know that Mac have a system monitor to do it, but I prefer using a terminal.
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Set the title of the terminal window to the current directory
How can I get the Terminal.app in OS X to display the current directory in its window or tab title?
I'm using the bash shell.
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How can I run a command from the terminal without blocking it?
I run a lot of programs in Ubuntu from the terminal, but I would like to be able to continue using the terminal after I have a program open. How can I put the programs in the background so that I don'...
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How can I use a Bash-like shell on Windows?
I use Linux and a Mac, and I'll be teaching some command line stuff soon.
What can I install on Windows to give me a terminal window most similar to a basic Mac/Linux Bash shell?
I would like to ...
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