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Switching from Mac to Linux DE: Strategies for globally swapping <ctrl> modifier with <meta>? [closed]
I'm switching from MacOs to Linux and exploring several popular Desktop Environments like KDE Plasma, Gnome & Pantheon, etc.
I find that the MacOS convention of using the meta key (aka the command ...
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How to source from stdout for both Linux and macOS?
On Linux I can do:
source <(cat .env | grep ANDROID_GRADLE_TASK)
But on macOS, this doesn't do anything (no error, and no source)
What can I use for macOS?
Is there a command that works both on ...
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"echo $VAR | base64 -di > file" fail to execute on MacOS
On Linux I can do:
echo ${ANDROID_KEYSTORE} | base64 -di > android/keystores/staging.keystore
But on MacOS, the same commands gives:
base64: option requires an argument -- i
Usage: base64 [-hvDd] ...
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Terminal opens with a command not found error
I checked the .bash_profile and .zprofile, but it is empty.
Also .bashrc or .zshrc do not exist in my home directory.
Terminal window
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is there any way to install libgranite-dev on mac os?
I'm trying to get the elementary OS terminal working on mac. The installation process of this terminal is described here.
after downloading the folder with the code files and typing:
meson build --...
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Open unity application via command line wih application's graphics off
On Unity documentation we can see there is a way to run a standalone player via command line without the graphics by typing -nographics
I'm using the following command on a mac terminal, but it is ...
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Sort files by date added not modified
I am trying to open the last application that was added to the /Applications directory on MacOS.
For now, in order to find the latest app and open it, I run:
open -a "$(ls -t1 /Applications/ | head -...
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Why was the “meta” key replaced on modern terminals?
I want to understand how the alt key behaves on terminals.
From some reading it appears that the "meta key" has been replaced on modern systems with sending Esc+ instead, why is that? What is the ...
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should I get rid of mutiple git installations, if so how? (OS X)
I hope the title isn't confusing, but I seem to have accumulated a couple of different versions of git in various directories over the years. I'd like to clean it all up and just have one version, and ...
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What does this rm -r command do in following usecase on mac terminal?
First I'm directing to the destination folder by below command
cd /Users/myname/MyFolder/
Now I'm using below command here, what does this command will do?
rm -r ../build ../dist
rm command is for ...
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Moving files to matching folders on linux command line
I would like to copy or move files in to matching folders.
these are my filenames:
1-filename-aa.txt
2-filename-aa.txt
3-filename-aa.txt
1-filename-bb.txt
2-filename-bb.txt
3-filename-bb.txt
these ...
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Unusual prompt in the terminal
I have a really unusual prompt in my Unix terminal (I'm using macOS). It looks like this:
myUserName@Galaxy-A7-2016
I've never seen the @Galaxy-A7-2016 bit before and I'm worried someone might have ...
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Can you run a Python program using Nice in Mac Terminal?
I'm trying to assign a high priority level to a Python program as soon as it runs using Terminal. I'm thinking of syntax along the lines of:
sudo nice -n -20 pythonfile.py
This returns the error: ...
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How do I open a document in split screen-full screen from the terminal?
I use a Mac and have been getting into navigating through the terminal as I prepare to switch to linux for good in the future. One annoyance I have come across, which I can't seem to figure out is how ...
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On macOS why "ps" always shows session id as "0"
I noticed it when running ps on different terminal sessions...
I don't really understand why? Also, when killing the -zsh process, so the interactive login shell, I noticed every of its children are ...
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