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How can I run a command which will survive terminal close?
Sometimes I want to start a process and forget about it. If I start it from the command line, like this:
redshift
I can't close the terminal, or it will kill the process. Can I run a command in such ...
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How do I attach a terminal to a detached process?
I have detached a process from my terminal, like this:
$ process &
That terminal is now long closed, but process is still running, and I want to send some commands to that process's stdin. Is ...
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How to connect to a serial port as simple as using SSH?
Is there a way to connect to a serial terminal just as you would do with SSH? There must be a simpler way than tools such as Minicom, like this
$ serial /dev/ttyS0
I know I can cat the output from ...
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How can I create a message box from the command line?
How can I create a message box from the command line, either GUI message boxes or message boxes shown inside the terminal?
It would also be interesting to be able to get a simple input back from the ...
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How to signal the end of stdin input
In Bash, I learned that the ending signal can be changed by here document. But by default how can I signal the end of stdin input?
I happened to find that with cat and chardet, their stdin inputs can ...
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Connect to a Bluetooth device via Terminal
I'm using Mint 15 w/ Cinnamon.
I bought a set of bluetooth speakers and I'm trying to connect to them via terminal. Via the GUI I can see them normally and I am connected to them. I want to make a ...
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What is the best text-mode web browser? [closed]
I'm looking for one that is frequently updated and full-featured.
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Converting colored output into html
There are tools providing coloured output:
dwdiff -c File1 File2 # word level diff
grep --color=always # we all know this guy
...
The question is: How to convert their colored output of arbitrary ...
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SSH inside SSH fails with "stdin: is not a tty"
I'm trying to connect to machine one with ssh and then connect to another machine two with ssh, but I get this error.
ssh [email protected] 'ssh [email protected]'
stdin: is not a tty
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Sending messages to another user
Is there any command to send messages through the Linux shell to other people on the same network? I'm using write user and then write the message itself. But there's any command that doesn't show my ...
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Disable CTRL-D from closing my window with the terminator terminal emulator) [duplicate]
I am often logged in several SSH sessions at once. To logout from several sessions, I press CTRL+d, until I am back on my local machine.
However, I occasionally press it once too many, and my terminal ...
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Encode with ffmpeg using avi to mp4
What command lines to use to convert from avi to mp4, but without destroying the framesize and making the file small as the original size or a little bit bigger, and same thing with mp4 to avi? ...
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How do I exit or cancel a bad bash command?
I expect to get some flak for this, but I can't find the answer anywhere. It seems like it should be so obvious. Sometimes, when I type a bad command in a bash terminal, the cursor just jumps down to ...
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How do I check whether my shell is running in a terminal?
I want to perform some action only if my shell is "connected" to a terminal, i.e. only if my standard input comes from a terminal's input and my standard output (and standard error? maybe that doesn't ...
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How to permanently disable Ctrl-s in terminal?
From here I understand that to disable Ctrl+S the stty -ixon command can be used and it works, but as soon as I close the terminal and open another I have to re-enter the command.
To permanently ...
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