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Long form command line flags in Terminal?
I hope this is the right place to ask this question. So basically, I'm currently combing through some of the more commonly used Terminal commands, and I find it really hard to remember the short form ...
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Terminal will not allow SSH to Linux
I have a VPS that I have accessed using Terminal in the past. When I open Terminal I get
Last login: Tue Aug 29 04:02:48 on ttys002
Mac-mini:~ administator$
All of the articles I have been able to ...
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bash broken osx "[Process completed]"
I had an error in a script, which ran 'brew unlink bash'. I then started getting: Warning: bash already installed, it's just not linked
I tried
brew update && brew install bash
sudo bash -c ...
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Output of du command
I have a folder and it is 16.91GB in size(I checked in Finder).
I tried to check the size by using du command.
So, I tried du -sh ~/folder and I got 16G.
I thought I will get the output in Bytes ...
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Can't access Linux server via SSH
I have a MacBook Air, version 10.12.1 (Sierra).
I have been thus far with Windows for the better part of the last 20 years and few days ago I switched to Mac for the first time.
I have a shared ...
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are we able to clear mysql terminal (not just clear but totally clean)?
I know that there are command such as \! clear, system clear, using ctrl + l in terminal to clear the terminal.
But I realize by clear, it's just leaving a gap and all previous results are still at ...
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How to force ls terminal command to show results in Bytes while I have set the default to ls -h in bash profile?
I am following the snippet here to improve my terminal command in Mac OSX.
It sets the default value of ls results to human-readable by exporting alias ls='ls -GFh' to bash profile file. This is very ...
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How can I correct two-finger scrolling on a Linux VM under OSX?
An earlier poster posted some of my concern at https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/235029/in-terminal-how-to-exit-the-two-fingers-history-scrolling-mode, and I am grateful; I now know how to get ...
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Why does terminal repeat "//: is a directory" after I source .bash_profile?
Sergios-MBP:~ home$ nano ~/.bash_profile
Sergios-MBP:~ home$ source ~/.bash_profile
-bash: //: is a directory
-bash: //: is a directory
-bash: //: is a directory
-bash: //: is a directory
-bash: //: ...
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What does a question mark after the file name mean using ls terminal command?
What does a question mark after the file name mean using ls terminal command?
I am using a Mac running OS X Yosemite (v.10.10.5)
When I do ls command at terminal, I get back a list of files (the same ...
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Terminal: How to list current directory while typing out a path
I'm not sure how to phrase this correctly but I want to know how in the terminal to do the equivalent of 'ls' when typing out a path.
So for example i'm typing in:
sudo "/Library/Application\ ...
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Alias command from terminal that opens a new terminal on a specific folder
I have this command already working in my .bash_profile:
alias mysite='cd /Applications/sites/mysite;pwd; php artisan serve --port=9000 | open http://localhost:9000 | open -a Finder ./'
So it:
CD's ...
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Needing to open OS X bash script as via launchd IN a terminal window
I've got a lengthy and complex bash script which works OK, but I'm trying to automate my deployment process and I'm flummoxed at this point.
I can get the script to run as a LaunchAgent no problem, ...
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Why does CTL-3/CTL-# equal CTL-[? (and others) in the case of ASCII control characters
I've been rediscovering ASCII control characters as I fiddled with some terminal emulation code, and wrote a small program that outputs the hex value of each key I press (tcsetattr() with ~ICANON).
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How come I have to `source ~/.profile` every time I launch a new terminal?
When I launch my terminal and I do
node --version
I get 2. w/e
Then I try to do nvm use 5.3.0 and it says nvm: command not found
So then I have to
source ~/.profile
Then I can use the nvm ...
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