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PageUp/PageDown -- how to catch properly?
I am here on a tutorial to build a text editor.
I'm finding that on my macOS (it works on a Linux VM), even with raw mode enabled, I'm unable to intercept Page Up and Page Down, which are sent via fn-&...
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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)
I have tried to replace -di with --decode --input, it didn't help.
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Warp terminal launch through skhd
Did anyone get [Warp Terminal][1] to work with [skhd][2]?
I use to use Kitty with
cmd - return : /Applications/kitty.app/Contents/MacOS/kitty --single-instance -d ~
I'm trying to get launch it with:
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Installing Snaphu on Mac OSX Big Sur ZSH
Snaphu is a script that unwraps complex Radar images. The compressed zip setup file can be downloaded from standford website. It should be installed using the zsh terminal and must be copied to system ...
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How do I verify the checksum or hash of a downloaded file on the command line?
If I have downloaded a file from the internet, and the source website has provided a checksum or hash (eg. SHA-256), how do I verify that the hash of the downloaded file matches the hash reported on ...
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On macOS, how do we remove the past commands history from Terminal > Shell > New Command?
We want to remove the list of commands that were run in the past in the New Command window.
It is the AutoFill or AutoComplete history of commands.
To see them, follow these steps:
Launch Terminal
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What does 'mustard color' highlighted directories mean?
When I run 'ls -laGp' command in macOS some of the folders are highlighted with this color. What does that mean?
I researched but couldn't find any documentation or anything. If you let me know ...
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On a Mac, how can I list contents of a non-current directory without showing backup files (ending with ~), preferably with BSD command ls?
My system:
OS: MacOS / Mac OS X (Mojave 10.14.5)
OS core: Darwin (18.6.0)
Kernel: Darwin Kernel / XNU (18.6.0 / xnu-4903.261.4~2/RELEASE_X86_64)
ls: version unknown, but man ls gives a page from the ...
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Different ways to execute a binary? [closed]
Are there more ways of executing Unix binaries using a terminal (command line)? Using echo as an example:
$ /bin/echo "test"
test
$ cd /bin/
$ ./echo "test"
test
$ eval echo "test"
test
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Outputting the binary of a file to a text editor
I have read that you can use the terminal command xxd -b to see the binary of a file. I used this command and it does show the binary but has non-binary listed to the left as line numbers and non-...
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macos - terminal deleting parts of filepath beginning with "$" [duplicate]
I'm trying to manipulate files in a directory whose filepath includes a directory that starts with "$", for instance:
git rm path/to/file/$dollarsigndirectory/anotherdirectory/file.format
I'm ...
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Make reset on Mac like reset on Linux
On Mac, the reset command in terminal almost does the same thing as clear. On Ubuntu Linux, and maybe other flavors of Linux, the reset command actually "resets" the terminal so that you can't scroll ...
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Grep versus spotlight on mac
I'm a newly minted CS major and I have been wondering what the benefits of using grep versus spotlight on mac. I ran a command to search for a specific file because I lost track of which directory it ...
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How can I access a Vim process after closing its terminal on macOS?
This what I get when I run the ps command:
$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
14777 ttys000 0:00.25 -bash
19716 ttys000 0:00.15 vi templates/base.html
8240 ttys001 0:00.11 -bash
8284 ...
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"ip" command of iproute2 package
In Linux I can do: ip -4 address show or (more verbosely): ip -family inet address show to retrieve information on IP addressing. This command returns:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 ...
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