Questions tagged [terminal]
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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How should I set up meta key sequences with tmux, zsh and vim?
I'm having trouble getting control character sequences working properly. Depending on how I have things set up, either Home/End don't work in the shell, or Alt+Arrow keys delete lines and put me in ...
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Reopen screen based on title
So I created a screen session using. screen -t name
Is there any way to reopen this session(assuming there are not duplicate names) based off this name?
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psql output in Debian is messed up
Width of the terminal window is 280 columns, and Debian prints text just fine.
However, psql output is totally messed up. When I type a command, it's not wrapped: if I exceed 80 symbols in a line, ...
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Why is the first field in 'ls - l' not a 'f' when viewing a file? [on hold]
When I do 'ls -l', I might get something like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 209 Mar 30 17:41 fname
The first field is the -, which means this is a file.
If it was a directory and not a ...
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Turn off limit to scrolling down in Gnome terminal [on hold]
I began recently using the Terminal in GNOME, and I was wondering if there is a way to turn off the limits to scroll down. What I mean is if I can have the line where I write in the middle of the ...
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What is the ANSI escape equivalent of `tput sgr0`?
To avoid a subshell, what are the ANSI escape equivalents of tput sgr0 for an ANSI-compatible terminal?
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Terminal output not displayed for certain commands
I'm having a weird problem on Ubuntu 18.04 (Desktop) where certain commands don't display output to the terminal when they are run when they definitely should. I can still capture the output of the ...
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Bash - nesting quotes - three level quotes
I prepared a bash code to the Xfce menu item in the launcher. Before putting it to the launcher I tested it in the terminal. I worked well.
To put it into the launcher I had to put it into the ...
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Number of threads and kernels [on hold]
When I don't have any information about the machine.
How can I get the number of threads and kernels of a computer?
Are there any System Calls or Commands?
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Ranger, open file freeze the terminal
I set Viewnior for open image files, but when I open any image file (jpg or png) ranger stays frozen or something similar, and I only can return to ranger when I close the app that opened the file. ...
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Cursor disappears when running `top -n1 | head`
When running
top -n1 | head
the terminal's cursor disappears.
Running top -n1 brings it back.
Tested in gnome-terminal and tilix in Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7.5.
Running top -n1 | tail doesn't have ...
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How to add pids at runtime to a top command?
I am trying to monitor a certain process with top command and have launched top with
top -p <pid1>
The process quits after some operations and I relaunch the process. This time the process ...
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Open Sudo Authenticator with Gtkmm [closed]
Basically i'm trying to implement a Graphic interface with Gtkmm to one of my programs created with C++.
I wanna know if I can make a window appear to be able to put the password of sudo, in order to ...
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How to start an application in terminal?
I run an application by opening a terminal then navigating to a directory and executing ./nameofapp. The application opens in terminal and I can operate it with some other commands.
If I try to run ...
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How to active arrows in insert mode on vim? [closed]
When i set wrap text on vim: :set wrap, I can move the cursor down (or up), but sometimes a line is flow on the screen for the wrap mode and you see various lines instead a one line. So, the cursor ...
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How can I create a quick access command in the terminal for an application
I want to create a quick shorcut to a file wich is: file.py it is located in
"/myfiles/folder1/file.py"
I want to access just typing in the the terminal: "file" this file has a working directory so ...
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Run new terminal with bash running command
If I want to run a command, say ranger, in a new termite terminal, I can use
termite -e "ranger"
and, if I want to run ranger inside a bash sub-instance, I can use
bash --init-file <(echo ranger)...
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Portable output from `script` [duplicate]
I have recorded my session which looks good on my terminal (when doing cat typescript), but shows gibberish everywhere else.
Is it possibile to use knowledge of my terminal to produce a portable ...
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Bash code interfering with monitoring software
I have a login script that runs when users logs into a Linux machine.
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$SSH_TTY" ]; then
This script is interfering with a monitoring software that also connects over SSH. The ...
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Changing default python to 3 made broke pip and easy_install [duplicate]
I have this problem with pip I have been trying to fix it through search here and I've not been able to fix it.
I used a tutorial online to change the default python when I type. https://linuxconfig....
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Open the contents of terminal in editor
Applications such as Tmux and Termite allow interaction with the contents of the terminal through vi-like bindings for actions such as searching and copying.
Is there any way of opening the contents ...
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Keyboard shortcut to open new terminal in new window not working in classic Gnome
I login to my profile using gnome 3. I have set the keyboard shortcut there to open new terminal in new tab as Ctrl+alt+n and when I apply this shortcut it opens a new window terminal from desktop.
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WARNING:root:could not open file '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/teejee2008-ubuntu-ppa-bionic.list'
Then I type some random commands, bash keep saying me that some file can't be open and only then about that command - why?:
dex@dexpc:~$ sfsdf
WARNING:root:could not open file '/etc/apt/sources.list'
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what means the “-t” in Ubuntu terminal? [closed]
I'm working with terminal and wondering what means the "-t" tag in commands ?
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Permission Denied while trying to Find file
I was trying to find a library by using find . -name "*libcurl" or find . -name "*libcurl.so" command.
I get a list of messages with permission denied, not sure whether that means the file couldn't ...
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fbterm as standard console at login
Does someone know if it is possible to run FBterm as standard console at login?
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No command is working in VMWare with Linux [closed]
Is there a way to install apt-get onto Linux? It seems that no command works whenever I attempt to install nmap or do anything for that matter.
I tried several commands and watched multiple videos ...
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Kali OS Update turns GRUB into a Terminal [duplicate]
A little while ago, I installed Kali Linux 2018.2 on my laptop via USB. I had to do some tweaking to fit my needs, but overall it worked fine. However, recently I got a notification from the Software ...
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Why does the Solarized colorscheme look different in vim than it does in iTerm2?
In iTerm2, the background color looks like this:
While in Vim, the color looks like this (I'm using https://github.com/altercation/solarized):
I'd like the first version everywhere. Now, I've never ...
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How to change from Xterm to default terminal in ubuntu 16.04
I know it can be silly question but I suddenly clicked some shortcup/or somemething else occur - and my default ubuntu terminal changed to Xterm.
How to revert this? Or change xterm to "normal" ...
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Make user create 775 permission folders
I typed out the command chfn -o umask=002 souser and expected that souser user would create folders with 775 permission then but he did not. How to get that each new folder created by a certain user ...
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ps options help, how to report a truncated list of processes sorted by desired columns
Just discovered ps. Spent about 20 minutes reading through the man ps, testing out different options, but only found myself both more intrigued and deeply perplexed by the options. The ordinality and ...
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What's the difference between ZSH themes, prompts, and terminal based themes?
I perhaps may have started overthinking this, but I also couldn't find a suitable explanation for it. I recently installed oh-my-zsh and it comes with several themes that change the way the "prompt" ...
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Why does my 'rm' command work fine in terminal on my mac but not from shell script?
I have a directory whose name contains spaces. I need to remove the contents of this particular directory.
I am escaping spaces in the directory name with \ before removing the contents.
The rm ...
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Add something at the end of every typed command [duplicate]
Is there a possibility to add some text at the end of every command i type in the terminal? For example i type "ps" and after pressing enter, it becomes "ps -a", I type "ls" and it's "ls -a"
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Mac Terminal: Repeat Multiple Previous Commands Sequentially
I know that I can navigate through previous commands using the up & down arrow keys, making it easy to re-run an earlier line of code. However if I want to re-run multiple sequential commands I ...
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Expect in bash script?
Is there a way to use expect command directly in a bash script for which the automation is to be done, instead of writing a expect script and use spawn command to trigger the bash script from expect ...
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(error) not a valid identifier of IP number on terminal ubuntu [closed]
When I run my terminal it works fine. But In the top of the active line, i get the following warning.
bash: export: `192.168.1.17': not a valid identifier
bash: export: `192.168.55.1': not a valid ...
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Bash script to auto-arrange icons on desktop
I am looking to set the desktop icons to arrange. I was thinking this line of code would work. But, it seems this ling of code is not save to the file. I am using Peppermint-9-20180621-amd64.
sudo sh ...
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Saving find command output to variable [duplicate]
I'm trying to save the find output to a variable in this manner:
a=find /Users/Downloads/DTI_allsites/subprojects/*/UII_0077 -name "dti_preprocessed" -type d
But I keep getting the following ...
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What part of the terminal stack is responsible for the direction of text being output? [closed]
The question is asked here:
https://serverfault.com/questions/152310/reverse-bash-console-text-flow
https://superuser.com/questions/719317/can-i-reverse-the-stream-direction-of-my-terminal
https://...
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Terminal commands not working
I moved all files starting with lib from /../ to some folder as,
mv /../lib* /to/some/folder
after which I can't move it back.It comes as
-bash: /bin/mv: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: bad ELF ...
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batch rename folders with value from json value in package.json
This is a bit of a crazy one, but I am wondering if it is even possible.
I have maybe 300 folders in my /var/www folder that were all renamed to the same name [Name](Num) so kindred (19) for example.
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Terminal that sends CTRL+C to tty, when I click CTRL+B
I use Linux Mint with 'Terminal GNOME'.
I want to use CTRL+C in terminal to copy text. Easy.. I set it in Preferences, but I also need to send somehow 'intr' signal to apps.
I want to make terminal ...
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How does a (mysql) process know “its” terminal if not from stdio?
One thing with the mysql program caught my attention. It can be told to ask for password interactively with the -p flag, in which case, as you would expect, a prompt appears in your terminal and ...
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How to let proper arrow navigation on terminal app open by shortcut?
I'm trying to create a shortcut for a terminal app called "Fricas".
By now I was able to create it with manjaro's app manager passing the following code line to open it:
konsole -e fricas
But when ...
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Why is tput failing silently on TERM=vt100
I'm using zsh with iTerm as my terminal emulator on macOS and my environment has TERM=xterm-256color by default.
If I run tput setaf 3 it exits with code 0.
If I set TERM=vt100 and run tput setaf 3 ...
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Allow user to enter username before mounting shared drive
I have a mount drive which I usually mount using
sudo cifs -o "username=myshareddrive_username,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g)" //server-address/folder /mount/path/on/ubuntu
Now, I have some linux ...
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Uninstall a Steam game with the console [closed]
I need to uninstall a Steam game just in the terminal. I don't know if it is possible, I have tried deleting the folder of the game in
steammapps/common
but if you open Steam after deleting the ...
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linux: how can i open a gui program like google-chrome from the command line so that it stays open even after teminal closes [duplicate]
i am a ubuntu user.
i often open/launch programms from the command line / terminal.
But when i close the terminal, the program also shuts down.
Is there some way to let the programs stay open, even ...
