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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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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Bash terminal not wrapping text correctly [duplicate]
I am using the gnome-terminal with bash, and when I have a command that should go over the line, it just stays on the same line. So instead of:
echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
I would get
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Linux: coloring bash prompt will break carriage return
When I try to colorize the bash prompt like this:
export PS1="\e[0;31m[\u@\h \W]\$ \e[m "
it breaks the carriage return (instead of going to a new line when line is full, it starts in the same line ...
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OSX Terminal showing incorrect hostname
When I open Terminal I expect it to show what my PS1 is set to \h:\W \u\$.
However it's not displaying my hostname Eriks-MacBook, as displayed in System Preferences.
Instead, it's showing a random ...
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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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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 do I fork a process that doesn't die when shell exits?
If I run emacs from the shell:
$ emacs foo &
and then kill that shell, emacs dies.
How can I run a command so that it will not die when the shell dies?
I found references to nohup, but that ...
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Echoing output to file while seeing it in console in the same time [duplicate]
So I echo output of my programs ran in terminal by
command 2>&1 >> /path/toFile.txt
It creates few limitations that I want to overcome:
It "freezes" and gives no output in terminal - ...
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Is there a way to have a dynamic system status area in the Linux terminal that updates while one does something else?
I'm thinking for some servers I look after, that after I SSH in to the box it would be very helpful to see things like disk usage, CPU usage and the such in the actual terminal I'm in as I’m working. ...
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Copying folder to multiple destinations in parallel [duplicate]
I have to transfer roughly 250gb of data from a Master Drive to lots of USB drives, all of identical size and brand. When I copy using the GUI in Mac OSX, it waits to copy all the files to one drive ...
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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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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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Linux - Set default terminal size and screen position?
I can't find any settings inside the terminal profile to allow me to set a geometry size and screen x,y coordinates so that the terminal window always opens (even after reboot) in the same location on ...
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Mac OS X Terminal not logging in
I am running Mac OS X version 10.6.3 and when I open the terminal (with terminal.app or iterm) it just hangs on the login process. I've tried restarting, changing the startup command to /bin/bash, and ...
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How do I rename a bunch of files in the Command Prompt?
I have a problem with filenames. The stupid camera I am using resets the autonumber sequence every so often, and therefore I am getting tons of conflicts if I try and put lots of photos in a single ...
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Pass mouse events through tmux
I have noticed that scrolling in tmux is a hazzle and was wondering if it was possible to have tmux pass them along to the application or terminal.
I may be understanding things wrong here but I have ...
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Changing routing on Mac with two Ethernet ports
I have a Mac tower which has two Ethernet ports. One is connected to our corporate network, the other to a non-corporate network. Priority order states that the non-corporate network comes first and ...
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How can I copy on select in the OS X Terminal like PuTTY does?
That PuTTY option to select and then right-click to paste is the best invention after the mouse. Is there any way to make Terminal in OS X do this? Hack the source code? Install something?
Is the ...
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How to show output on terminal and save to a file at the same time?
I am using:
user@unknown:~$ sudo command -option > log
to save the results of "command" to the file "log", but I'd like to also get the result on the terminal, is this possible?
I am using ...
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Save multiple gnome-terminal layout?
I have multiple gnome-terminal windows open. Is there a way to save the settings (window position, no. of tabs, title etc). across OS reboots ?
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OS X Terminal command to change color themes
Is there a command that can be used to change the color scheme of the Mac OS X Terminal? I like the idea of being able to change colors depending on scripts I run. So far I am just changing the color ...
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How do I get files found by command-line 'find' ordered by modification date in OS X?
Using the Mac OS X Terminal, how do I write a find command that orders results by modification date (most recent first)?
There are similar questions already, but they refer to GNU find and POSIX, but ...
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How to zip multiple files into separate archives?
I admit this question was asked here before:
Like Zip into separate files where the person who asked didn't specify the OS he used and received no answers.
I need to separate a huge directory into ...
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SSH without sourcing .bashrc
I was experimenting with my .bashrc file while remotely logged in to a server over SSH. I inadvertently left an exit in there that caused all subsequent logins to immediately disconnect. I was ...
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How to keep the command line prompt on the first line of terminal?
I need to keep the command line on the top of the screen and see the output of any command below it. How can I achieve this using any available tools on any platform?
Currently, on the all terminal ...
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Clear Windows Terminal + cmd.exe from .bat file
I am using Windows Terminal along with a batch file that runs cls as the first command. Under standalone cmd.exe running cls clears the window and scrollback. Under Windows Terminal, it does not clear ...
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How to open files with forward dash in linux
I need to open a file with filename that contains forward slashes. I am wondering how I can do that. I have been searching through Google and I can't seem to find a way.
Thanks
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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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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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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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How can I partially clear my terminal scrollback?
I want to partially clear my terminal scrollback history, but only from where I have selected with my mouse in the scrollback and up. Is this possible? I'm on a Mac, and I use iTerm2 and Terminal.
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Use terminal scrollbar with tmux
I know how to scroll in tmux using the keyboard, but I noticed that it looks like there's a way to use the terminal scrollbar with GNU Screen. Can this be done with tmux?
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chown - Operation not permitted
I'm logged in as minime.
I don't understand why it doesn't allow me to chown file that I own without su privileges. Obviously I can use sudo, but I'd like to understand why? because of www-data group?...
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Open a new tab in the same directory
Say you are in /very/cool/and/deeply/nested/folder . And you want to open a new terminal tab in the same folder.
How would you do that?
I use Mac OS and Zsh.
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How to send the escape character on OS X terminal?
Connecting with telnet looks like this:
$ telnet some.host
Trying 10.1.2.3...
Connected to some.host.
Escape character is '^]'.
I'm running this on the OS X Leopard terminal. Question is, how do I ...
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Making 256-color AND Line drawing characters both work in PuTTY
I'm having trouble setting up PuTTY with Ubuntu.
I'm trying to get line characters to work in aptitude as well as 256-color support, but can only get one or the other.
Ubuntu Config
Using 64-bit ...
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Undo the Linux trash command
Can we undo operations done in a terminal, for example, file deletion through rm?
Solutions obtained:
Aliasing
Undelete utilities
Backup utilities
LibTrash
Versioning (FUSE)
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TTY with 256 colors?
With URxvt and xterm it is possible to use a virtual terminal supporting 256 colors instead of only eight. Since my Intel GMA graphics card is well-supported by the KMS framebuffer driver, I am ...
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How do I set up an AppleScript to open a new iTerm2 tab and change the directory?
In OS X, how do I set up an AppleScript to
open a new iTerm2 tab
change to a directory
clear the console
echo the current directory
I had something like this before for regular Terminal, but I can'...
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in linux console, how to NOT wrap output
In a (linux) terminal, sometimes it is less important to see line endings, but more important not to clutter the line startings. e.g.
line1 sddd dd ddd
line2 sdafss ss s
line 3 da aaaa aa
rather ...
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Make OS X Terminal commands I type BOLD
I'd like to make commands I've typed (input) into terminal stand out from all the output.
For example:
imac:~ buster$ chmod -R g-w myfolder
imac:~ buster$ cd myfolder
imac:myfolder buster$ ls -l
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scp from remote Linux to local Windows with spaces in local path
To push a file from a Linux terminal to a Windows system, the following two examples work just fine.
scp /home/user.name/file.html [email protected]:/C:/Users/user.name/test_folder/file.html
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Terminal: prefix previous command?
Frequently in Terminal (though I fully expect any answer will work in bash and most others), I type some command, and then get some sort of permission error due to missing sudo.
Okay, so press 'up', ...
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Why is pasted text highlighted in macOS Catalina's Terminal?
On macOS Catalina, when I copy text and paste to Terminal, the text is highlighted (basically, there are ANSI color codes enclosing the text). I don't know when this feature was included, but is there ...
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bash: per-command history. How does it work?
OK. I have an old G5 running Leopard and a Dell running Ubuntu 10.04 at home and a MacPro also running Leopard at work.
I use Terminal.app/bash a lot. On my home G5 it exhibits a nice feature: using ↑...
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All commands are not working on Mac OS X Lion
I am faced with a problem, that I can't run even a single command on my Mac OS X Lion terminal, even "ls" command, when i print $PATH variable, found
My-Mac:/ Mac$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/git/bin
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Why is the name of my computer wrong in terminal?
I just transfered all of my files and settings over to a new laptop using Migration Assistant (on a mac). The name of my computer in terminal is wrong for some reason. It's unknown20c9d042dc93
The ...
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How can I make `clear` preserve entire scrollback buffer?
Whenever I run clear in my terminal, it deletes the scrollback buffer from the top of visible part of the screen to the current line. I have tried it in multiple terminal emulators and the problem ...
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Terminal new window always shows -bash: Searching: command not found
When open terminal, it always shows -bash: Searching: command not found. It does not affect other functions, just each time, even though open a new terminal window, it still pops up at the top of the ...
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