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Little clarity needed about: PC and Mac and Unix
I've always thought that a PC and A Mac were two different computing platforms, not just with in their operating systems (Windows & Mac OS) but different from hardware to thier respective internal ...
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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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Connect to the right serial port in Unix
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I'm trying to connect to a device using UART though a micro-USB cable and GNU screen from Ubuntu and OSX.
On both Ubuntu and OSX I can get the most recent serial connection with the ...
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bash - directories ending in . and whitespace cannot be removed
On my external hard drive are two directories, Fun. and Complex_, where that _ is a whitespace. I cannot empty from my trash or remove them with rm -rf and I want to.
Neither show up in Finder on OSX,...
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Setting the $SHELL environment variable
For some reason, when I run chsh -s /bin/zsh, my $SHELL environment variable isn't getting set. When I run:
echo $SHELL
It outputs:
/bin/bash
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Can I use `which` command for partial match?
I want to find all programs with name like "gcc", "gcc-4.2", "gcc-4.9" and so on.
To find all binaries I tried with which -a gcc*.
But "*" is not recognized as 'any' with which command.
Is there ...
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Are SSH remote connection passwords encrypted?
When I try to connect to my SSH remotely, will the password I send to authenticate my user account be encrypted when it's transferred over the internet?
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How to have a complicated two way sync using rsync preserving deletions
I have gone thorough similar questions on stackoverflow but they dont cover the situation that I would like to ask here.
I have all my music files on my remote machine. I would like to sync them to ...
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Map `php` at the command line to point to `/usr/bin/php`?
For some reason using php at the command line references /usr/local/bin/php instead of /usr/bin/php. How can I make $ php script.php the equivalent of running $ /usr/bin/php script.php?
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OSX / Unix: move odd or even numbered files
I have a folder with a range of numbered files (camera images) and I'd like to move every other image into a different folder, so either all the odd numbered images, or all the even ones. How can I do ...
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Pass arguments to Unix executable in Mac terminal
I'm pretty new to Unix coding and would like to work on a few simple networking projects. I found a few tutorials that are exactly what I am looking for - this one in particular: http://www....
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can a .screenrc key binding contain variables?
I'm working on a customer .screenrc for Screen and I can't seem to find a way for it to support variables. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
I want to press ^l, then specify a name, and that ...
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What does this line do? [export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=”$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/mysql/lib/]
I'm trying to get MySQL-python working on my mac. I have to put this line in the terminal to fix an error, specifically "_mysql.so image not found". The source of this line tells me I should put it in ...
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i want alice to run any command as root, but can not run commands as any other user
Say I have 2 users - 'alice' and 'bob' and want to allow 'alice' to run any command as root, but not run commands as 'bob' or any other user, am I able to do this, and if so how ?
consider this ...
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Unable to launch app from /usr/bin
OK, this question may sound too basic, but this doesn't mean I'm not still a bit confused :
I'm running OS X 10.6.8 (shouldn't make much difference though, the issue is more like *nix-specific)
I had ...
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