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Can I configure my shell to print STDERR and STDOUT in different colors?
I want to set my terminal up so stderr is printed in a different color than stdout; maybe red. This would make it easier to tell the two apart.
Is there a way to configure this in .bashrc? If not, is ...
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How can I close a terminal without killing its children (without running `screen` first)?
sometimes I run an app in the gnome-terminal, but then I suddenly have to restart gnome or something. I guess the answer to the question is also useful then I want to disconnect from SSH where ...
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1answer
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Using a variable inside a sequence of commands in bash to supplement an existing string - syntax error or flawed design?
I'm using the following sequence of commands in my .bashrc file to alter the appearance of my linux terminal. It fills the screen line by line with a pattern made out of characters. There is no ...
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Using the system date / time in a Cron Script
I'm setting up a Cronjob that will backup a MySQL database I have in my server, but I don't want it to keep overwriting the same file over and over again. Instead, I want to have an array of backups ...
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2answers
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How do I prevent a script from terminating when the shell exits?
In particular, I created a script to start Firefox which I double-click and choose 'Run in terminal,' but when the shell exits Firefox is killed immediately.
How do I prevent this from happening?
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Can the empty spaces/background in a terminal be replaced with a random(but pretty) pattern of ASCII characters?
Context and Question
There are many ways to colorize the terminal and shell environment. The output of individual commands, such as ls and grep, can also be colorized. Not directly related but ...
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Can I configure bash to execute “clear” before every command typed in the console?
I would like to configure bash to execute clear command every time I type some command in the terminal (before executing my command). How can I do that?
I'm using Debian Linux.
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3answers
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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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4answers
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Copy text from one terminal into another
I am logged into ssh to a university account from my home computer. Then I find a file that I want to copy onto my local system. So I open a new shell terminal and am about to use scp to copy that ...
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4answers
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How can I create an alias for a git [action] command (which includes spaces)?
Most of my my aliases are of this form: alias p='pwd'
I want to alias git commit so that it does git commit -v
But trying to create an alias with a space gives an error:
$ alias 'git commit'='git ...
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2answers
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Alt-Left to skip words does not work in terminal emulators
On a Debian Wheezy machine at previous job, I got used to Alt+Left and Alt+Right to skip between words on active command-line (in bash).
However, since at home I have upgraded to Jessie (Debian 8.0, ...
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issue with terminal/prompt
I have an issue where if I type in very long commands in bash the terminal will not render what I'm typing correctly. I'd expect that if I had a command like the following:
username@someserver ...
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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
...
5
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1answer
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Keyboard shortcut to copy current command from terminal to clipboard [duplicate]
Is there any way to copy current command (line typed in bash prompt) in terminal to X-clipboard without involving a mouse?
5
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1answer
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Is split-screen `cat`ing possible?
I asked the question How to use cat or less depending on the line count? with the intention of browsing many files without having to scroll up too far to view my history after displaying a long file, ...
5
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3answers
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Change $TERMINFO in bashrc script
I'm trying to set TERMINFO="$HOME/.terminfo" within my .bashrc script. The reason being is that my terminal isn't in the system terminfo location, and so I have its terminfo file in my home directory.
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3answers
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Read and process a string, char by char, yet allow user to simple line edit the input
I want to incrementally read a line of input from the terminal,
and allow the user some basic line editing functionality; INS, DEL, RIGHT, LEFT HOME, END, BACKSPACE
Each time the string is ...
2
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0answers
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Is it possible to modify the colors in bash? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to configure Bash so that STDERR can be a different color than STDOUT?
In bash, the only color I know how to modify is the prompt, using \[ and \]. From ...
2
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5answers
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Perl script, do cd on terminal
In Script to change current directory (cd, pwd)
it is shown how to run a bash script that changes terminal directory.
But how do i run a perl script that runs a bash script that changes terminal ...
2
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0answers
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How can I check which shell I am currently using? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to test what shell I am using in a terminal?
An echo $SHELL will only display the value of the SHELL variable which would indicate the default shell on the system.
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Run command automatically after login?
Another quick question. I have installed f.lux on Ubuntu 12.04, however the program refuses to work unless I run a command
xflux -l [longitude] -g [latitute] -k [temperature]
So I've created an ...
