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Sourcing ~/.bashrc in ~/.profile?
I'm quite new to developing under OSX and assigned some aliases and other preferences in the ~/.profile initially, however it got quite big and messy after a while because I had a lot of Environment ...
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Can I convert the font and SVG to base64 via offline OS X and Linux terminals?
I know how and I can convert the images to base64 via OS X and Linux terminals.
But I'm not sure if I can convert the fonts and the SVGs to base64 via offline OS X and Linux terminals.
I don't know ...
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mac how to run a command in a different tab/window of a terminal
In Windows, I can run any program from the command prompt by typing
c:> start startup.sh
and windows will run the startup.sh in a different command prompt(terminal) window.
How can I do the same ...
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Howto start an application remotely, so that GUI is shown locally
This is a beginners question, I know... but I have searched and I'm getting frustrated. I know my way around Lunux pretty well, but I have never had to deal with XServer.
Question 1:
I SSH from OSX ...
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What is the terminal command other than ctrl + c to exit a running Node.js program in a macOS?
In Linux terminal if I run a command like:
$ node httserver.js
The command runs and by doing ctrl + c the program is terminated and new line comes in terminal for us to enter a command.
I felt ctrl ...
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cat clipboard text into a terminal?
I have text in the clipboard. I want to cat it in a terminal a pipe it into another command.
The exact use case is a PEM encoded X509 certificate on a website presented as text (-----BEGIN ...
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How to get tree -a to ignore .git directories?
I love using tree to list directories, and I have a git repository with all my dotfiles. For me to be able to see them I need to do tree -a, but that will also list the contents inside the .git ...
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Is there a serial terminal program that allows filtering the messages? [closed]
For the serial terminal program choices, we have hyperterminal and putty on Windows; minicom and screen on Linux/Mac. But as far as I know, none of these has the message filtering functionality as ...
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bash directory name with a space in CDPATH
I'm trying to set a shortcut so that I don't have to type a really long directory name so often. In ~/.bash_profile, I am doing something similar to:
export CDPATH=".:~:/This/Is/A/Really/Long/Path/...
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Different Path Based on Directory
I am developing an application using Play! Framework version 1.2.4. So I have downloaded this and added its bin/ folder to my path.
However, I am getting ready to start another Play! Framework ...
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Start tmux session with only one window but several panes
I'm trying to configure tmux so it starts creating a new session with three panes.
One big pane on the left und two small panes on the right side.
I set
set -g default-terminal "screen-256color"
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How to open a new terminal from a terminal in Ubuntu?
I have an assignment in which I have to use socket programming in C to connect multiple clients with the same server. The problem is that every time a client connects to the server the server must ...
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How does tab-completion "know" what files there are in sub/super folder?
I wonder how tab-completion knows that certain file exists in a directory above the current directory or in the working directory?
If I have a file named foobar in a subdirectory and I type in foo ...
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Bash rename to time
How can I rename a file to match the current (rounded) time. If it is for example 10:55 or 11:05 then I would like to rename it to 11.
Something like this:
mv file.txt file_`date +%H`.txt
but with ...
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OS X terminal - put flags/options at end of command?
Is there a way on OS X to put flags at the end of a command instead of at the beginning? On my Ubuntu box, either of these will work, but OS X treats -la as a directory argument in the second example:
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