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How to install tar file (jhead) on Mac or Linux machine
I'm new to Linux and tar balls and was wondering how to properly install them on a Mac or Linux machine. I would prefer to know how to install on a mac but I just need some help understanding them. I ...
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How to map terminal shortcut from CTRL-M to another combination
I read in another post that you can type CtrlJ or CtrlM instead of the Return key in the terminal, which is great. But what I want to be able to do, is change that to another combination, for example: ...
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Cannot execute binary file on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
I want to execute phylocon on a mac OS X lion but after changing the path and making the file executable, I get the error 'cannot execute binary file'. But the steps that I took to running the command ...
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Tmux status bar question
I'm fairly new to tmux and to truly master and learn it, I decided to make myself a fresh .tmux.conf
I was wondering, though, if it's possible to hide a path in the status bar.
For example, I have ...
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How do I detect a copy event in Finder?
I am trying to strip formatting from text copied from my Illustrator docs. Someone accurately pointed out to me that running pbpaste | pbcopy via command-line will perform this action on text in the ...
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How to prevent ELinks from staying in scrollback buffer?
After quitting elinks, the browser page history is lingering in my scrollback buffer, and therefore not returning to whatever was buffered on screen when I launched elinks.
Inside a GNU screen with ...
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Zsh: Automatically modify executed command
I've recently installed grc (generic colorizer) to my system via MacPorts, giving me the ability to get colorized output for plenty of commands which by default don't support it (see screenshot ...
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Why the differences in color between SSH terminal sessions in OSX?
I'm trying to get the colors in an SSH terminal session with a CentOS machine to look the same as it does when I'm SSH'd into my Ubuntu server. If I run echo $TERM in both I get xterm-color as ...
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What does @ sign mean in 'ls' output on Mac OSX Lion terminal? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
what does the @ mean in ls -l?
What does the @ sign mean in the following "ls" output?
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 489 Jan 4 13:14 boot.plist
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sv_SE.UTF-8 Problems with Bash and VIM in iTerm2
Two specific issues, despite me running iconv -f iso-8859-15 on my old files when converting from sv_SE.iso8859-15 to sv_SE.utf-8 I still get distorted characters. And I believe it's because of Vim ...
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How to resume multiple instances of Screen from command line with minimal steps?
I have about 15 instances of screen running on my linux server. They are each running processes I need to monitor. I had to close terminal (hence the reason I launched screen).
Is there a way to ...
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Why curl -O -C on mac fails to download
The following script works on Ubuntu, but not on Mac. Why? How to edit it so that it would work there too?
#!/bin/sh
v=1.1
test_file="Test10.java"
jar_file="dp4j-$v-jar-with-dependencies.jar"
curl ...
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terminal - having “$” instead of MyComputer:~ me$
Right now in my MacOS X terminal I have MyComputer:~ me$ before all the commands.
In some videos I saw they have just $ - that's much less clutter, how is it done?
