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Start a song from a specific time in rhythmbox using command line
I would like to start a song from my terminal, starting from the first min.
i.e.: the command will run the music.mp3 starting from the minute 1.
I am able to run a music with
rhythmbox music.mp3
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Confused about Debian error message from su
On Raspbian, the Debian distro aimed at RPi, I end up getting the following error:
$ sudo su -l root -c /bin/bash
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no ...
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How to turn off the beep only in bash tab-complete
I find the beep useful for some things, so I only want to turn it off for tab completion (I'm not asking how to completely turn it off, that has already been answered in a different question on ...
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A script's background process is still alive after closing the terminal
This is more of a process management/signal handling question than a Bash question. It just uses Bash to explain the issue.
I'm running a Bash script in which I run a background process.
This is the ...
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How to change terminal character encoding
Today I uninstalled the GUI packages on my home CentOS installation. Now, when the machine starts, I get the login prompt. It acts finicky. Sometimes pressing enter just once after answering each ...
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What's those underscore commands?
When I tab tab _ in terminal, Bash suggests 206 posibilities. I tried to run one of them _git_rm but nothing happend, what are they?
Here is a screenshot:
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Output from ls has newlines but displays on a single line. Why?
I think I may be overlooking a relatively fundamental point regarding shell. Output from the ls command by default separates output with newlines, but the shell displays the output on a single line.
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How can a bash script detect support for window titling escape characters?
I have a debug trap that runs every time I enter a command in bash that sets the window title to indicate what command is running. I'm leaving out all the configuration details and boil it down to:
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How to remove “You have mail” welcome message
When I open up my terminal it says "you have mail", anyone has any idea of why? I am running OS X, but since it too is based on Unix and relies on files such as bashrc, bash_profile etc. I thought ...
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Bandwidth, CPU & Memory stats returned in single line from terminal
I'm trying to create a simple monitoring system that will show a graph of sales that is linked entirely to data of bandwidth, CPU and Memory stats as they relate to sales. So if I sale 1 widget per 5 ...
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Bash: How do you view text that has been “scrolled up too far” in the terminal?
I know there is a simple unix command that allows you to view things from the top and/or allows you to scroll indefinitely toward the top. Not sure what to call it, so it's difficult to google. Thanks ...
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UNIX be-spoke Shell-Script / Commands
Sorry in advanced if this question would be better suited on SO.
Basically, I'm getting used to using the command line interface (linux etc..) and I come across commands like:
git [command]
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how to make terminal utf-8
How can I make my terminal(bash) window uft-8, that it can show utf-8 characters?
my operating system is : ubuntu 12.04 my desktop : gnome-shell
How about native shell(outside of desktop)?
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How to solve the issue that a Terminal screen is messed up? (usually after a resizing)
Sometimes, a terminal screen is messed up, and when we use man ls to read the manpages, or press the UP arrow to go to previous commands in history, the screen will show characters not as the right ...
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How does “man” restore the screen when I quit the program?
If I open a man page of a program like cat or ls, it prints (may not be the appropriate word) the contents of the man page and when I press q, it shows the screen just like before invoking the man ...
