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Matching bracket selection on gnome-terminal, like Mac OSX terminal
I have recently fallen for a (non obvious) feature of the Mac OSX terminal:
Given a display of some kind of deeply nested text with lots of matching brackets, parenthesis, or quotes (ie. JSON), the ...
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Why does this netcat pipeline work in macOS but not Linux?
I set up the following pipeline. This allows me to see the raw HTTP requests and responses that pass through the pipeline.
Note: I use BSD nc below (this is what comes with macOS and AmazonLinux), ...
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macOS: How to switch default rsync with a MacPorts version
The default version of rsync (2.6.9) provided with macOS Sierra, High Sierra and Mojave does not work well with newer installations of rsync (3.1.x). For example using rsync -x on a remote machine ...
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See output command terminal history in zsh terminal
I'm in an edge situation and I really need to retrieve some generate random value I executed last week in iTerm through the command: cat /dev/urandom |LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'A-Z9' | fold -w 81 | head -n 1
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Unable to write to NFS share, Finder hanging
I've a issue with an nfs share : this is my setup :
/etc/exports :
/home/delaland/sharetest 111.111.111.111(rw,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=100,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check)
all needed ports ...
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How do I use sed to parse a string that includes hyphens?
Input example:
foobar_1-1 1024 x 1024
Desired output
foobar_1-1
The hyphen is causing issues here. It's causing the output to be two items in the array:
foobar_1, 1
Any advice?
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How to use the lastb command from Mac terminal?
In bash on mac, when trying to list recent bad logins, the lastb command is unrecognized, while it works fine on my Linux machine. Does it need to be installed or is it a different command for macs?
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Cat and/or echo several things into one file on "one command line"
I know we can do things like this:
stat -f%z mybigfile > RELEASENOTES.txt
and
echo "bytes" >> RELEASENOTES.txt
Now RELEASENOTES.txt will look like this:
47556304
bytes
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Mac OS .bash_profile errors
I'm running Mavericks 10.9.5 and I have tried to install Metasploit from this guide.
It was until the Install Homebew I used
echo PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH >> ~/.bash_profile
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