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subl does not open in command line
I am unable to open sublime text from the command line in my mac os.
Here is what I did so far
echo $PATH
My path says /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/sr027976/.rvm/gems/...
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unix move cursor after last character
After I use my arrow key to move my cursor left, I am unable to move it back to the end of the line. For instance:
If I type:
$ echo hello wordl_
Then if I move the cursor left to fix typo
$ echo ...
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What is the Unix PATH variable and how do I add to it?
Many programming tutorials ask users to add something to their PATH but don't explain what it is. The existing resources that explain the PATH to users new to the command line are not very good.
What ...
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Regarding Backup While Using CP
I have some files on the Desktop
/Desktop/F1/T1
/Desktop/F2/T2
I want to copy those files to another folder like Destination
but If the destination contains a file with same name I want to backup ...
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Run command as root but create files as another user?
Is there a way to run a command as root (using sudo perhaps) but have the files created by that command be owned by someone else?
Some context: I have a web server that I run as root in order to have ...
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Mac (Linux) - Restore file removed through mv command
I have one big problem. I had two files - main.c and logic.c. I have used sed for some modification in logic.c and then i saved it to main_updated.c and then run
mv main_updated.c main.c
BUT it had ...
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How to configure the ANSI colors of the command line terminal
I specifically use bash on Mac OS X, but I think the answer would be Unix-generic.
I'm already using ANSI colors, but I'd like to reassign different colors to folders, hidden files, etc.
Update:
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How to recover deleted file in mac? [duplicate]
I wanted to copy a file using cp, however, I happened to type rm and the file was deleted.
How can I recover it?
The file is stored in a mobile hard disk drive with FAT32 file system
I'm using Mac ...
HanXu
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How to list directories names but not their contents, in *N*X?
If I do a simple ls specifying a filename pattern, like ls A*, for directories that match the pattern, it will enter the directory and give the full listing, but how could I get just the listing for ./...
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personal .txt archive; utf-8 or utf-16?; need chinese and scandinavian characters; performance irrelevant
So I use plain text for pretty much all information I keep. The files are (or will be) used with shell scripts, emacs, vim, terminal etc. on OSX and Linux. It would be ideal to be able to use English, ...
user116354
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What does kill -3 mean?
I know what kill -9 means, but anyone can explain what does kill -3 mean? Is there any special signal it sends out?
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How do I keep folders synced and backed up between two macs using a Linux NAS (rsync?)
I've got two primary computers, one Mac Pro and one MacBook Pro for when I'm on the go. I've also got a Linux sever which also acts as NAS.
Currently I backup the entire computers to an external ...
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What's to stop somebody from creating a setuid-root binary on a flash drive, then putting it into another person's computer and getting root access?
What's to stop somebody from creating a setuid-root binary on a flash drive, then putting it into another person's computer and getting root access? I assume there's some kind of protection against ...
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Expanding globs in xargs
I have a directory like this
mkdir test
cd test
touch file{0,1}.txt otherfile{0,1}.txt stuff{0,1}.txt
I want to run some command such as ls on certain types of files in the directory and have the * (...
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How \ why does echo $'\ec' work? What is it doing to clear the terminal?
On the terminal prompt for OS X I can type in echo $'\ec' and ti will clear the console. I have no idea why this works, though. What is it doing?
I'm guessing this would work on other versions of ...
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