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How is replaceable text shown in a terminal? [duplicate]
For example after doing apt-get update, it shows
Reading package lists... 82% with the percentage changing in the same line.
How is that achieved? Is it possible to use it in a bash script?
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Can't apply brightness to terminal's background color
I have a problem with colors in my terminal emulator. I am using LXTerminal as my terminal emulator and LXDE as my desktop environment.
The following command is supposed to print red text on grey ...
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bash PS1 256 colors with bold
I want to list all colors that I can use in bash console. And after it I want to set my prompt to be bold and orange like color. I'm using this to do listing color codes for me:
for code in {0..255}; ...
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How can I open a new terminal in the same directory of the last used one from a window manager keybind?
I'm using a tiling window manager and I switched from gnome-terminal with multiple tabs to multiple urxvt instances managed by the window manager. One of the features I miss is the ability to open a ...
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List of 'if' switches anywhere? [closed]
Is there a list of all the if switches for use in bash scripting? Sometimes I see someone using it and I wonder what the switch they're using actually does.
Example is the -z in this one. I know how ...
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Scrot command - how to save only thumbnail
I'm using scrot to take screenshots from terminal.
However when I want to generate thumbnailed version using parameter -t, I got two files: screenshot.png and screenshot-thumbnail.png.
How can I ...
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1answer
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Bash Commands not working on Mac
Hello I open my terminal window on Mac Os 10.6.8 as I am trying to update my ruby to 1.9.3 and the terminal gives me this response immediately as I open it:
-bash: export: ...
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“Friendly” terminal color names in shell scripts?
I'm aware of libraries in languages such as Ruby and Javascript to make colorizing your terminal scripts easier by using color names like "red".
But is there something like this for shell scripts in ...
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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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1answer
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In Bash Vi mode, I get thrown into Insert mode automatically after one key press
I am using the bash shell with the XFCE4 terminal. I have configured the shell so that it is in Vi mode.
I have done this by adding the following line in my ~/.bashrc file:
set -o vi
When in a ...
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1answer
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The command ` ls -ltu ` fails to list folders/files based on last accessed time
First on your linux desktop create 2 folders.
a
b
Now run this in the terminal
ls -ltu
the result is
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 30 20:33 b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 30 20:33 a
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How to see all commands executed by the current user, in all sessions/screen/byobu terminals?
If there is debian box, some users have access to the root account, some of those users open an ssh connection and start executing commands, some open screen or byobu or other similar tools to execute ...
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Shells in tabbed windows in a terminal
I want to do tabbed terminal stuff without having actual tab windows in my terminal application.
Is there any good way to do this within bash? It would come in very handy with SSH if I could avoid ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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Get list of all files by mask in terminal
I want to find all *.h,*.cpp files in folders with defined mask, like */trunk/src*. So, I can find separately *.h and *.cpp files:
find . -path "*/trunk/src/*.h"
find . -path "*/trunk/src/*.cpp"
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