A terminal is an environment for text input/output. Inside the terminal, one runs command-line and text mode programs (including shells).
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Redirecting syslogd Error Messages to an Error Log or to a Null File?
I have an old PowerPC laptop (old Mac Powerbook G4) that I am running a variant of Debian Squeeze on (MintPPC 9).
I keep getting Kernel error messages when I am connected to a particular wireless ...
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Hash symbol on a teletype
My issue is a bit unusual, so I want to provide a short background. I was looking at old winners of the International Obfucated C Code Contest, and came across an entry written for the PDP-11 (the ...
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Tmux Terminfo problem with Zsh key bindings
Zsh in Emacs edit mode comes with the default key binding ALT + Backspace to delete a word on the right side of the cursor and ALT + D to delete a word on the left side. I would like to add the latter ...
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Reset background to transparent with tmux?
I recently set up tmux-powerline and noticed that the background color on the status-left, if changed, refuses to go back to default and transparent (if transparency is enabled).
I was able to fix ...
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Unix User Level Keylogger
I need to record my own keystroke data for some academic research. I wrote a regular keylogger for Windows, but now I need to write one for a Unix environment, with the constraint that I have only ...
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Battery Bar in URxvt?
I was looking through an ArchLinux thread on URxvt, and I came across a setup at post #184 that I am going crazy looking for.
It looks like there's some kind of battery bar in the PS1, with a ...
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mouse in midnight commander works only under root
I posted a question a little time ago about mouse that doesn't work with terminal, and then I remarked that mouse works fine, but only under root. Can I change this behavior? It seems i need to ...
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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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Mac Terminal - moving files
I am trying to use Mac Terminal command to move files to a new location.
I have a list of almost 2000 filenames with full paths in a text file. (All of them are in one parent directory, but ...
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Stop receiving signals when running music from terminal
I can play music in my music collection by typing:
'vlc somefile.mp3 &'
Which works great except that I always start receiving some signals from the execution of playing that song.
In the ...
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How to copy from/to the tmux 'clipboard' with shell pipes?
When working in a shell environment I run fairly often into the need to copy 'intermediate pipe output' around (eg. from/to already running editors, to other shells, other machines, etc.).
When in a ...
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“who am i” after “su” not showing new user id?
Why is it that when I switch user 'su username' and then execute 'who am i' is outputs the previous user which I was logged as and not the one I've switched to?
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Can emacs use gpg-agent in a terminal at all?
I understand that there are problems with getting pinentry-curses to work with emacs (see some of the comments on http://emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG), and so using emacs in a terminal isn't compatible ...
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Lost ls directory highlighting after a crash
Normally commands such as ls and grep offer nice syntax highlighting for me. But my system crashed (running an ubuntu VM) and after I restarted, I no longer have this highlighting, it's all a dreary ...
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How to stop a infinite running process (ztail) started by a ssh session after that session is closed
I have a peculiar problem. My server supports multiple ssh session simultaneously, so that multiple admins can manage (via command line interface) it simultaneously. We have a command which calls ...
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How to undo in spreadsheet calculator sc?
spreadsheet calculator sc is a very old console-based program. It does what the name says. I cannot find how to undo an operation in its man page. I currently use it together with RCS, ie. manually ...
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Sending function keys (F1-F12) over SSH
I have a Fedora machine that I can SSH to. One of the programs I'd like to use occasionally uses the function keys. The problem is that I'm SSH'ing from an Android tablet (ASUS Transformer Infinity) ...
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Is it possible to modify the colors in bash? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to configure Bash so that STDERR can be a different color than STDOUT?
In bash, the only color I know how to modify is the prompt, using \[ and \]. From ...
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emacs colors based on $TERM environment variable
I want to know if it is possible to make emacs, when running in a gnu screen or tmux session, use the same colors as when TERM=xterm. In a gnu screen or tmux session, TERM=screen and emacs uses a ...
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How to use the Meta/Alt Key with tput?
I want to redefine keybindings for the commandline of a lisp dialect. The commandline is actually modeled after Vi and implemented with tput/terminfo. I want an alternative version with Emacs ...
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Setting tab width in C++ output in bash
I have a c++ program and I use the tab character "\t" to organize my output to a human-readable columns. However, 8-spaces-wide column in bash is too narrow for me. How can I increase it?
Note: In ...
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Error while compiling C source code [closed]
I'm trying to run heathusf_v1.1.0.tar.gz found here
I installed tcsh to make build_heathusf work. But, when I run ./build_heathusf, I get the following (I'm running that on a Fedora Linux system from ...
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Export terminal display to PDF
I want to include the display of my terminal in a beamer presentation. Simply taking a screenshot, however, produces a fairly low-resolution png that looks poor in the presentation. I would like it ...
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How to create cross-platform keyboard bind commands?
I'd like to have the same keyboard shortcuts in all the terminals I use. Since they don't have the same *nix on them, and since terminals can be very different, I'm looking for a reasonably portable ...
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How to disable messages in unix if mesg and chgrp not allowed?
This is one of my questions for my exam ..
We are not supposed to use mesg y/n for this but we should effectively avoid mesgs along with the problem of not being able to change groups.
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Show current “setterm” values/settings
I know that setterm can be used to adjust parameters such as screen blanking time on a virtual console. How can I show the current setterm settings/values for all parameters?
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What command line to use to set up Double Commander's “Run in terminal” feature to use XFCE terminal?
Double Commander has a handy "Run in terminal" feature but it is configured to uses xterm by default. Needless to say many prefer to use their desktop environment native terminal client and so do I. ...
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How to fix a terminal after a binary file has been dumped inside it?
After having played with curl, a binary file has been dumped inside my terminal. For example, the horizontal lines: ─ I use to format my prompt are replaced by 'q', and it can be much worse.
Why ...
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Command line input while a running script displays strange symbols
If I use the bash shell cli and run some program which doesn't return immediately, then I input some letters (basically typing the next command before noticing the previous didn't finish) and the ...
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Backspace, del, arrow keys not working with interactive programs in Tilda
I currently run Openbox on a light netinstall of Debian. In Tilda, when I use a program like nslookup or winexe, some of my keys do not work properly.
Backspace generates ^?
Up generates ^[[A
...
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Xubuntu 12.04: slow login
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04, and after I ran the update, my login started slowing down big time. I've dabbled a little bit with the programs in Settings -> Settings Manager -> Session and Startup, and ...
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Clear / erase a mistyped invisible password on a shell / terminal in Linux
One thing that annoys me using Linux's terminal is when I have to type a invisble password, like when you run ssh. Sometimes I mistype one or more letters and then I have to press backspace key a few ...
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Sublime command line open it twice
I just created a symbolic link to sublime:
$ sudo ln -s /opt/SublimeText2/sublime_text /usr/bin/subl
The problem is that it opens the last project and the open I want:
$ subl my-project
or
$ ...
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How to echo (a (executable-)string) to the prompt, so that the cursor flashes at the end of the line?
How to echo (a (executable-)string) to the prompt to make the cursor sit at the end of the line?
So that I can hit Enter to execute or Ctrl-C to throw away the line.
Is this possible at all?
I ...
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$PATH in /etc/profile not inherited by user shell
I have this in /etc/profile in Fedora 17:
PATH=$PATH:"/usr/pgsql-9.2/bin"
EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs -nw"
PSQL_EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs"
PAGER="/usr/bin/less"
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME ...
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How to make FreeBSD variant of cal start weeks on mondays?
Can week start day be changed in cal output?
Is it hardcoded? Notice: not the ncal.
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Ctrl-C does not work with pppd non-detached session
I have a Mini2440 ARM Board, and I have put a base Debian 6.0 system on it using multistrap.
I have used tmux to run several processes in defferent windows from /etc/rc.local. I connect to the board ...
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is it possible to run job in foreground after user logout
I have some job to run which need be attached to terminal (or in foreground). The job is run in remote servers, and needs keep running after the users logout. I am aware of vnc server, however, I want ...
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Escape Code to Change Cursor Shape
I know that Konsole supports an escape code like "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7" that will change the cursor shape. I was wondering if any other terminal emulators support changing the cursor shape ...
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Tmux output is slower when vertical splits exist: why?
When I use Tmux and split the window into panes, I notice that programs are quite a bit slower to print out lines of text when there is vertical split (two panes side by side) than when there is a ...
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Silent boot opensuse without fbsplash
I want to boot my openSUSE 10.3 distro without any boot messages.
I've looked at fbsplash, but it requires patching the kernel, a thing which I cannot do at the moment (not because I don't want it or ...
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What is the command or hotkey for stopping a running program in DrJava?
I installed DrJava about a week ago. Its been working fine so far but I ran into an infinite loop and wanted a way to stop the program from running without having to force DrJava to quit. Is there a ...
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How can I create an alias for a command that includes a space?
Most of my my aliases are of this form: alias p='pwd'
I want to alias git commit so that it does git commit -v
But trying to create an alias with a space gives an error:
$ alias 'git commit'='git ...
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Emacs: Switching automatically to char-mode when switching to an ansi-term window
Say I have multiple windows open in Emacs 24.1 and that one of those windows is an M-x ansi-term window with a shell.
By default, when I switch to an ansi-term window, Emacs activates Term: line run, ...
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New terminator window on remote server
Is there a way to open a new terminator pane on a remote server when connected by ssh?
I am looking for something similar to what can be done (according to this answer) by tmux but using terminator ...
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Effect of $LANG on terminal
I'm trying to learn how the $LANG variable behaves with gnome-terminal (and its character encoding preference option). I've been using iso8859-1 (latin1) as my main character-set and all my filenames ...
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Log file visualizer in a Terminal (UNIX) (terminal logging replay)
I need to log in to various servers via ssh, and its a useful thing to log the terminal (even things in smitty menus/AIX and with correct/exact date/time). I already have a solution for this:
0)
# ...
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SSH inside SSH fails with “stdin: is not a tty”
I'm trying to connect to machine one with ssh and then connect to another machine two with ssh, but I get this error.
ssh user@computerone.com 'ssh otheruser@computertwo.com'
stdin: is not a tty
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Fixing scrolling in nano running in tmux in mate-terminal
The problem:
I open a terminal (in Linux Mint, so mate-terminal)
zsh is the shell
Then I run tmux
Edit a file with nano
Scroll up and down that file with the cursor
Issue: When scrolling down in ...
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limit stdout to terminal output speed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I limit the output speed of stdout?
What's the easiest way to limit the speed at which stdout is output in a terminal, so that, for instance, tail -f outputs ...
