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 can I run code in Unix? [on hold]
I have my git repository cloned to a specific directory in my terminal. I need to run my code on the file in the specific directory.
How do I run the python code on the specific file?
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Unable to terminate a running program / application
I am having trouble terminating applications started from the terminal - for example, I used:
cd /usr/bin and ls to determine that the gimp app is here.
I then started gimp by typing "gimp" - started ...
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rxvt-unicode some colors missing on CentOS 7
I have the following configuration. It works fine on Ubuntu 16. However, on CentOS 7, some colors of rxvt are not displayed (just white), and some are totally fine, there is no obvious differences ...
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ksh keybind trap
I am trying to follow this code sample
http://www.kornshell.com/examples/keybind
# Example from page 98
typeset -A Keytable
trap 'eval "${Keytable[${.sh.edchar}]}"' KEYBD
function keybind # key [...
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Launch default terminal emulator by command
How do I launch the default terminal emulator by command? x-terminal-emulator won't work because I'm not using a Debian and xdg-terminal doesn't seem to exist either. Is there any other way to launch ...
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Kali Linux stuck after login screen (dual boot with windows10 & kali linux 2018.4) possible reasons? [duplicate]
After deciding to dual boot my acer aspire laptop which is running windows 10 with kali linux I faced the problem that my login screen in kali linux freezes after loging in.
When I did the dual boot ...
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Customize bash looks for user profile on debian 9
I am trying to customize the bash prompt on Linux Debian 9.
I got the script from Github and I modified the file .bashrc
On the terminal, when I log in as root, I can see the customization I was ...
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Shell/terminal/bash command or script for copying list of files from one project to another
Let's say I have a project called my-project/ that lives in it's own directory and has the following file structure.
my-project/
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├── src
│ ├── index.html
│ ├── main.js
│ ├── normalize.js
│ ...
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How do I undo “defaults write com.apple.dock static-only -bool TRUE; killall Dock” on Mac terminal?
I was looking through an article of "clever terminal hacks" to use on Mac. I did not realize that some of these were irreversible and most of them didn't come with instructions on how to undo them. ...
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macOS - MySQLWorkbench “cannot start SSH tunnel manager” only when opened via command line
I'm trying to get two instances of MySQLWorkbench running simultaneously but I'm running into this issue. If I navigate to my applications and double click the application everything works fine and I ...
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How can I get colors when executing `bash -c`?
No colors are displayed when running bash -c "ls -l" (CentOS 7.2). I have an obscure reason to want to show the colors after all. Can I disable this... color suppression?
For anyone wondering about ...
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Date not updating in .alias
I have an alias file with the following line:
alias ss="import /home/User/Pictures/screenshots/screenshot-$( date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S.png' )"
In terminal, when I type "ss" it runs the command and ...
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Log Console Output [duplicate]
Is there a way to not only protocol/log the console inputs (like the history), but also the console output by default (without the constant usage of pipes)?
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How to start tmux upon running terminal?
I'm using xfce, and want to create a shortcut Super + t for starting up terminal with tmux. What command should I put it to execute upon shortcut? I tried st tmux attach , however it fails when there ...
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Why can I not run KDE redshift in a cronjob? [duplicate]
I'm running KDE Neon 5.14 (based on Ubuntu 18.04) and KDE Plasma 5.14.2.
A command redshift (/usr/bin/redshift) is provided to adapt the screen colors to red tones for evening/night. I can ...
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How to copy all files in all directories with specific filename to one destination?
Let's assume that I have these files:
/1/tEst.mp4
/1/Test.mP4
/1/subdirectory/TEST2.mp4
/1/.20181106Test2.mp4
How can I copy all of these files into /2/Videos with a single command line?
All files ...
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Start terminal with a specific size using wmutils/core
link: https://github.com/wmutils/core
wmutils/core provides some utils that can be used to move/resize/.. windows in X,
does not depend on window manager's features.
In case I'd like to use dmenu ...
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Printing the screen (text-mode) to paper without drivers?
I am currently working on a machine that has entered Emergency Mode for CentOS 7.6.
To give myself a hard copy of logs and messages that appear on the screen (which are not from a file), I will take ...
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How to create a list of links?
So I have a website links that go like this: site.com/1 site.com/2 site.com/3 etc, up to 1000. How to create a list of this using bash or any programming language on linux? I know the question is most ...
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SED cuts off first letter of file name [duplicate]
I have a problem I don't understand. This works:
sed 's/CEName\.objects\.create(\*\*name_data)/self\.create()/g' test_function_view_customer_profile.py
But this:
sed -i 's/CEName\.objects\.create(\*...
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Why does XTerm support 63 function keys?
According to this table of terminal emulators and their keycodes, new versions of XTerm recognize function keys from F1, F2, F3, ... all the way up to F63. Most keyboards only have physical function ...
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Can someone explain to me what this **diff** means..? [duplicate]
I'm having an extremely hard time to read this can someone explain what it means, and what the difference between the two is ?
$> diff -U 3 user_output_test1 test1.output | cat -e
--- ...
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What happens in the kernel when an interrupt signal is sent to a process?
When I run a command that takes very long in terminal and want to kill it before it finishes, I press control-c to send an interrupt signal to the process. I'm assuming this signal is first picked up ...
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How can I get the “Google Response” to a query in the terminal?
I want to be able to get this terse result Google returns for some queries, from the command line:
I tried Googler, but it returns this:
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How to execute a command in another already opened terminal? [duplicate]
Is it possible to run a command in another opened terminal?
I know I can redirect the output of a command in another terminal.
For example:
ls >/dev/pts/x
Where x can be obtained by running tty ...
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Format of output of df -h
When I look at the output of df -h online it is displayed in columns.
On both the mac and ubuntu, it displays in one long line as below.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused ...
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OpenSSL: how to encrypt/decrypt?
In Debian, I'll encrypt a file or text:
$ echo test | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -in - -pass pass:password -out /tmp/test.enc
Then move the file to macOS (Mojave) and attempt to decrypt:
$ openssl ...
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Access command line process from another terminal?
In tty7 (graphical), a command line process is running inside a terminal emulator.
Now, the xserver fails and there is nothing but a mouse on a dark screen but all processes keep running in the ...
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Why doesn't the ! (exclamation mark) work on MacOS?
I'm trying to use the ! (exclamation mark) to search my bash history on Mac and it doesn't work. Why doesn't MacOS have this feature and how can I install it?
It does work if I use zsh, FWIW. And !! ...
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Comparing the `time_total` of two curl requests to different sites
I know that I can get the time_total of of curl request by using this command:
curl https://www.google.com -s -o /dev/null -w "%{time_total}\n"
Is there any way for me to easily compare the results ...
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Cannot scroll terminal in Debian
I have a Debian Virtual Machine running on VMWare Pro 15.
The problem is my laptop doesn't have a separate Page up and Page down key it resides under the 9 and 3 key of my keypad. When toggling ...
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Run tmux without user process, to just provide its /dev/tty* – is this possible?
In Zsh I can do vared -t /dev/ttys002 ZSH_VERSION and use vared (variable-editor) on a foreign TTY (in this example on OS X /dev/ttys002). I already did this trick with Tmux, first obtaining the TTY ...
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Changing the color of colored outputs
My terminal has a white background. When commands print yellow text to the terminal, I can't see the text clearly (due to low contrast). I thought: wouldn't it be great if all the yellow text that ...
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Difference between closing terminal and closing shell on child processes
Opening a new terminal and typing the command firefox& inside, ps -l gives :
4 R 1000 23132 23104 99 80 0 - 2177945 - pts/27 00:00:07 firefox
If the shell is closed with the command ...
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Terminal colors look wrong when using tmux with termite
The terminal i'm using is termite, and it is very good, but i'm having a problem with vim colorschemes and some colors in the terminal itself too when using tmux. It happens as follows:
As you can ...
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Saving cat file in termux
I was using termux in my android and i tried to use cat command to save some text and save it but i am not able to save the file after writing some text in it .In unix and linux i know we can save the ...
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Why does the rpm command have a '--pipe' option?
From rpm's man page:
--pipe CMD
Pipes the output of rpm to the command CMD.
Why was this added? Why would you use it instead piping via the shell itself?
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How to make tail to automatically reconnect to a log file that was deleted and recreated together with its parent directory
I am using tail with option --follow=name to watch my log files in my servicemix instance (path = ${smx_home}/data/log/servicemix.log).
ServiceMix have a 'nice' feature to restart clean with ...
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How do I loop an if statement in bash?
I want the user to be prompted with a question and then supply the answer, which will be stored under a variable named i, then if the answer (which is a file) exists and is writable, it reads it and ...
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Logging into remote shells from Konsole on Debian 9 results in “‘screen.xterm-256color’: unknown terminal type”,
Before I go into the detail of my problem there is a debian mailing list which seem to explain the cause- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854414
After installing Debian 9, logging ...
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When killing a process that uses serial port, do the serial port gets shut down?
I'm using the terminal to send commands to an Arduino unit through serial port.
Sometimes I use CTRL+C to kill the process. Does doing this also terminates the serial communication with the Arduino ...
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Terminal shows non-ascii? characters in UTF-16 hex codes
todoroki@todoroki-VJZ13B ~>printf "ä\n"
echo "ä"
ä
ä
ä
\udcc3\udca4: \u30b3\u30de\u30f3\u30c9\u304c\u898b\u3064\u304b\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093
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Is opening new tab equivalent to opening new window?
Is opening new tab in the terminal window is equivalent to opening a new tab in terms of resources? I need to run 16 scripts in parallel. I do not know whether opening tabs or new terminals is the ...
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How to redirect stderr in a variable but keep stdout in the console [duplicate]
My goal is to call a command, get stderr in a variable, but keep stdout (and only stdout) on the screen. Yep, that's the opposite of what most people do :)
For the moment, the best I have is :
#!/...
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Line wrap broken when PS1 contains a newline
I recently started using linux and thought it would be useful to be able to see the working directory (not just the basename) so changed the ~/.bashrc file to this:
#
# ~/.bashrc
#
# If not running ...
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Cannot touch “/static/a”: Read-only file system
I want to edit /static/volumio/app/plugins/music_service/mpd/mpd.config.tmpl file but when I try, It says read-only file system.
On mount command:
/dev/loop0 on /static type squashfs (ro,relatime)
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Exit tmux but stay in terminal
How can I exit a Tmux session but at the same time still able to stay in the terminal window? in other words, when I exit the session I get the terminal prompt. The problem is when I exit a Tumax ...
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What's different calling a program from a terminal and from a window manager?
For example I set up a combined keys of i3 wm that calling firefox, what's different from it with calling firefox in a terminal?
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How to send F10 with gtkterm?
How can I send F1..F12 especially F10 in gtkterm?
I have to press F10 at the right moment to select the boot menu of an APU2 system.
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config ip adrress of a network interface through ubuntu terminal [duplicate]
I am trying to configure ip address of network interfaces through terminal in ubuntu systems. So far successfully changed the IP address and other things through editing the interface file in the ...
