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 to add a dynamic value for for loop count [duplicate]
I have this:
cols="$(tput cols)"
for i in {1.."${cols}"}; do
echo -n '-'
done
but it doesn't iterate at all, but this works:
for i in {1..5}; do
echo -n '-'
done
maybe I ...
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How to copy terminal output to a file without using mouse [duplicate]
Say I have a bunch of text in the terminal. I can use my mouse/cursor to copy to clipboard but is there a way to copy the last X lines from the terminal to a separate file using a terminal command?
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How to turn off the ANSI escape sequence of Bash?
I am running Jest, and the output would go like: print a line (for a test), and then erase it, and print another line.
However, if I use a loop to do the tests (using expect), there is no way to see a ...
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Documented Best Practice for Initial UPDATE/UPGRADE Command Chain [closed]
It is recommended that as soon as a new Linux installation is done, the FIRST command to run is sudo apt update
However, there are several update + upgrade command variations that can be used or ...
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Zip the whole contents of a server except for www and access-logs symlinks
I'm moving an account to another server, and I'm zipping everything in the terminal using the command zip -r backup.zip * while on the server's home /. The archive was being created, and when it ...
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How to run the command "sudo sh /path/to/script.sh" by double clicking?
I have a question from this thread How to run a bash script by double clicking by entering the path in sudoers?. Since it was explained to me that it is unsafe to grant sudo privileges to the script....
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Bash customization only take place after interacting with the terminal for the first time
sorry for the title, I have no better way to convey what is occurring to me. The situation is the following, I am using bash, wezterm(terminal emulator) and starship (customizable prompt). But for ...
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Strange/Buggy Characters in the Terminal
I use Debian SID and the Terminator is my terminal emulator. After updating the system the last time (yesterday 2023/11/22) and rebooting, some characters in my terminal in certain commands are ...
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How to run a process in the background using a bash script? [duplicate]
When I run the command in the terminal: sudo badvpn-tun2socks --tundev tun0 --netif-ipaddr 10.0.0.2 --netif-netmask 255.255.255.0 --socks-server-addr 127.0.0.1:8080 I get a terminal with packet data ...
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macOS Terminal: How do I edit an MP3 file's metadata after renaming?
I have a script using variables already renaming files to the following format:
(track#) - (title) - (artist) - (date).mp3
#! /bin/zsh -
set -o extendedglob
pattern='(#b)*_ \((<0-999>)\)(* )—( *...
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Cannot update PS1 to change terminal prompt
I am using konsole
echo $PS1
gives
${$((_p9k_on_expand()))+}%{${_p9k__raw_msg-}${_p9k__raw_msg::=}%}${(e)_p9k_t[7]}${_p9k__1-${${:-${_p9k__d::=0}${_p9k__rprompt::=${_p9k__1r-${${:-${_p9k__bg::=NONE}$...
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Unexpected terminal behavior after SSH session ends unexpectedly
I am regularly experiencing an unexpected behavior in my terminal, with the following sequence:
connection to a remote server
usage of a command/software that will be embedeed in the terminal (text ...
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Command or tool to interpret and read asciidoctor syntax through terminal?
For a .adoc file to write documentation, it based on the asciidoctor syntax, is possible through GUI use either VSCode or AsciiDocFX to see a preview. Therefore the asciidoctor syntax is rendered/...
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Why terminal display in Win10Terminal is treated differently? [telnet to a remote Linux] vs [run WSL2 natively] [migrated]
I'm very baffled with a such a question. I believe it relates to those esoteric "Terminal" working details, so I hope I can get concrete technical answer here.
I have two lab machines:
An ...
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Different name on terminal than on file manager
I work on RedHat Linux and, when I read files from terminal using ll or ls -l on my desktop, I see different names from what I have in my file manager. Say the file name on desktop is John, but I see ...
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SSHing via WSL2 into remote debian vm results in "overriding" reverse search
When using WSL2 to SSH into a remote debian VM the reverse search behaves strange, eg. when searching for gitlab with dpkg -l | grep gitlab in history.
Behaviour:
(reverse-i-search)`gitlabkg -l | grep ...
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In terminal, how to delete a word when cursor is within the word?
I want to achieve functionality similar to c + a + w or d + a + w in vim
In terminal we have Ctrl + w for delete a word in the left and Alt + Backspace from the right But I was not able to find a ...
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is it possible to auto wrap the log output when check the linux service log
when I using this command to check the linux service log:
root@k8sslave01:/usr/lib/systemd/system# systemctl status kubelet
● kubelet.service - kubelet: The Kubernetes Node Agent
Loaded: loaded (/...
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Increasing the size of the swap partition with free space partition
My hard drive has three partitions with free space that I would like to turn into swap, meaning I want to increase the size of the swap partition using the free space from these three partitions (2M + ...
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SSH Chroot problems
Having multiple issues with a Chroot im trying to setup.
When logging in, the users name shows up as "I have no name!". The etc/passwd file is present and accessible by the chroot user, ...
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Weird spaces left on KDE terminals
In the picture you can see the problem (the app on the right).
So I recently installed manjaro i3wm, but I love KDE apps, so I installed konsole, kate and dolphin (which all of them have terminal ...
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groff -mandoc creating "ESC[1m" versus overstriking with backspace for bold text
I found that groff uses different ways to indicate bold text for the utf8 output format.
On FreeBSD 14, groff emits escape codes for a terminal (ESC, [1m):
$ printf ".Dd today\n.Sh NAME\n" | ...
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What happens if you put /dev/urandom into a shell script and run it?
I want to know what happens when you run the contents of /dev/urandom as a shell script. I know when you cat it into a terminal it will set off a bunch of random things in the terminal environment. ...
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"set editing-mode vi" v/s "set -o vi" what is the difference?
On multiple forums I have come across adding set -o vi to my .bashrc file. Today I saw the option of adding set editing-mode vi to .inputrc.
I googled and both appear to do the same thing, are there ...
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Trouble with zsh: command not found: code
I've been trying to make "code" work and open vs code, but using cmnd shift p and installing in vscode it self used to work until you restart the computer. Now even in vscode when I do, it's ...
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TMUX pane not fitting to terminal size
I am trying to use tmux on Kali linux and I maximize my terminal size. When I start tmux with the following command the pane does not fit to the terminal size: tmux new -s session
As seen in the ...
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Searching for rootkits with chkrootkit return unexpected results
I ran the rootkit program after his suggestion and noticed something on 1 line that said
Searching for Linux.Xor.DDoS ... INFECTED: Possible Malicious Linux.Xor.DDoS installed /tmp/...
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Terminal command launched from desktop file fails mid-process [closed]
I want to create a .desktop file that let's me launch the passwd command in a terminal. Here's the contents of the .desktop file:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Password
GenericName=passwd
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Python IDE (Visual Studio Code and PyCharm) Issues with "gi" Library
I'm having a specific problem with two Python IDEs, Visual Studio Code and PyCharm, which I hope to get some guidance on. The problem is related to the "gi" library. I'm running Python on ...
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Can't Install Umbrel on my Ubuntu Mate 23.04
I'm having a lot of problems when i run curl -L https://umbrel.sh | bash
Err:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is ...
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How to setup "Windows" and "menu" keys in pure Linux terminal
When using pure Linux terminal how can I get the Windows (Super) and menu keys events in Emacs?
I have several functions attached to them, they work in GUI mode in Gnome, but in pure terminal I just ...
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How to find out which tty a command was run in?
Web search found e.g. https://askubuntu.com/questions/624848/view-history-of-commands-run-in-terminal, from which I understood there is the file ~/.bash_history and the temp history.
I have many ...
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Can't install GDK on Catalina
Welcome, while trying to install Gitlab GDK on a MacBook Pro Catalina 16G RAM it goes ok except three dependencies which already exist but the GDK says they are not installed or outdated!
bin/gdk ...
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How to ensure that the terminal window always gets closed after running a specific program?
The && exit suffix can be used in aliases and the exec prefix when running a script, but I don't quite know how to make sure that the terminal window is always closed after a certain program.
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Why suddenly apt-get output became colored?
I'm trying to get wine. I've been doing instructions from https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu and on sudo apt update I've seen "E: The repository 'cdrom ..." with red "E". Just several ...
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how to show the linux font name
I want to check the font name in linux, so I use this commnad:
/app # fc-list :lang=zh-tw|grep "標楷體"
/usr/share/fonts/zh/tw/標楷體.ttf: AR PL KaitiM Big5,文鼎ＰＬ中楷:style=Regular
does the file 標楷體....
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error: msys: signature from "XXX" is invalid
How can I fix the error in the terminal on Arch Linux below?
error: msys: signature from "David Macek <[email protected]>" is invalid
This happen when I execute command.
sudo ...
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Does the display serve protocol (Wayland or X11) affect the terminal capabilities?
I wonder whether the display server protocol that my system uses can affect some capabilities in my terminal, such as
Clipboard interaction.
Rendering images on terminal, etc...
Since the primary ...
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Does stopping bluetooth service powers it off as well?
Other things being equal, which of the three computers (after executing respective commands on them) would use the most energy?
Which the least amount of energy?
1. bluetoothctl power off
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Use arrow keys in the middle of command
I type 3 commands in my terminal, one after another:
command1
command2
command3
If I use the up arrow key on my keyboard, I can access the previous commands. Suppose I want to use those commands in a ...
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Open PDF from a command line and go back to the command line
I would like to open a PDF with evince from the command line and after the Evince window pops up, I want to go back to the terminal command with $ already waiting for the next command.
Now if I run ...
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Are there commands for execute XFCE's menu entries to reboot or power off/shut down?
There is Herunterfahren(DE)/Shut Down and Neustarten (DE)/Reboot:
Is it possible to execute these GUI entries from the command line? If so, what exactly are the commands?
I already checked XFCE's ...
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Where can I find the below Linux terminal theme?
I have seen the below terminal theme a few times like this video. I think it is using the kitty terminal.
I have found some config files here which might be relevant but note sure if this will work/...
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vt100 terminal escape code issue
When I ssh into any arista switch from my mac I get a mysterious n added to the prompt immediately on login. After asking my coworkers about it I found out that it's about 50/50 where some also see ...
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How to quickly edit commands in the Linux terminal?
If you've typed a command, especially a lengthy one, in a Linux terminal, and you want to delete one or more words and replace them with something else, is there a way to do this quickly within the ...
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How to handle "Underscore" in filename - Debian 11
I'm using the terminal.
Im in "usr/local/myfantasticfolder".
There is a file called "my_fantastic_file.sh".
I want to run the following command:
sudo ./my_fantastic_file.sh
It ...
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How to replace '8' with '7' in a single step?
In the Linux terminal, I initially entered the following command:
tail -n +80 numbers.txt
After realizing that I made a mistake and actually wanted to use +70 instead of +80, I wanted to correct it. ...
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How to configure ANSI text colors for NixOS console?
I'm on NixOS-unstable (as of 2023 Oct 1st). How can I configure the text colors for the default NixOS console, as the terminal supports ANSI?
I tested what the colors look like by installing text-ansi ...
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Command line glob to view multiple images using ImageMagick's display
How can I open multiple images files using ImageMagick's display command? If I enter say display *.png in a directory containing multiple PNG files, only one is displayed. I think I'd prefer them to ...
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What is the hot key to show the next command of the previous command in history in Linux/bash?
In Windows cmd window, let's say I type and execute 40 commands like this:
echo 1[Enter]
echo 2[Enter]
echo 3[Enter]
...
echo 40[Enter]
If I decide to repeat the 40 commands again, in the same order, ...
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