A terminal is an environment for text input/output. Inside the terminal, one runs command-line and text mode programs (including shells).
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Using QtCreator with konsole instead of xterm
I tried to use KDE's Konsole to start console applications from QtCreator.
The application works as intended, but any new instance of Konsole started during or after the execution just shows this:
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Why my script is not terminating after I exit the shell? [duplicate]
As far as I know if we are using & after a command or script, it will exit once the shell is terminated or logged out.
So I have a simple infinite loop script and I am executing it like ::
[root@...
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How update title bar on terminator?
I have installed Terminator in my linux Mint on xfce. When I open it, the title bar is correct:
but, when I log into a remote server via ssh, the title bar doesn't update:
How can I fix the title?
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Want to delete a couple of Chinese(?) titled files [duplicate]
After partitioning an external drive, I see two files in a "Rescued Items" directory that have what appear to be Chinese character titles. Many of the characters appear to be dozens of "nul" ...
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gnome terminal colors
I just installed centos7.2 and am trying to set it up somewhat nicely.
I found an answer on here that shows how to set up some colours in the prompt. I am finding that, once dropped into the .bashrc,...
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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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Sudo Broken But Need pkexec
So I'm having this problem where I can't use "sudo"
sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
I researched and my ...
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Screen/Minicom multiline problem
I'm managing with some boards like Arduino/UDOO etc. but I always face an annoying problem with minicom or screen.
If i type a long command, for example:
sudo /sbin/wpa_supplicant -s -B -P /run/...
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Xterm “color query” doesn't print anything
I'm trying to programmatically query the background color of my terminal with
echo -ne "\e]11;?\a"
but the output appears blank. The issue arises using both Terminal.app and iTerm 3, in both Zsh and ...
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How do I print all words begining with a specific letter in a text
How do I print all words begining with a specific letter in a text? and all words of 4 characters?
thanks
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How can I install cool retro term on Antergos minimal ISO without GUI?
How can I install cool retro term on Antergos minimal ISO without GUI? Basically I only want the terminal without any desktop but I want that terminal to be cool retro term.
If I try to install it ...
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reset terminal via keyboard shortcut (without the enter key)
This should be easy, right?
In zsh for instance, you could put this in your .zshrc:
reset_widget() tput reset
zle -N reset_widget
bindkey "^L" reset_widget
However, this resets the terminal, but ...
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Close terminator terminal that called layout
I have a layout that will load 3 terminals each with different profiles, but I'm trying to figure out how to remove/hide the terminal that called the layout. For example, I open a terminator terminal ...
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Entering ascii chars as program input
If I write a very simple C terminal program that takes an input, how can I enter an ascii character as the input, like for instance the backspace character?
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Running a terminal command permanently [closed]
I am currently hosting my database for free on Openshift and have my program running on a Raspberry Pi on my local network. I need to pass the data from the program to my openshift database. I want to ...
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Is it possible to check where an alias was defined?
An alias, such as ll is defined with the alias command.
I can check the command with things like type ll which prints
ll is aliased to `ls -l --color=auto'
or command -v ll which prints
alias ll='...
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How to send input text in screen serial console?
I am using screen to communicate with arduino over serial port, i start screen like this:
screen /dev/ttyACM0 115200
then I try to send a command but every key I press on the keyboard get sent ...
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Using port forwarding to connect to a remote server on a remote server
I don't know if this is possible but I'm pretty sure I need to use port forwarding.
I want to be able to view a web page which is hosted on a server (S1).
This web server is only accessible when ...
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Grep only those lines with “<active>…</active>” whose next line contains specific tag and value
By using grep I only want those lines out of all xml files that contains <active>true</active> tags and the next line after that should be <codePool>community</codePool>.
My ...
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Filter grep result-set by paths containing folder1/folder2 and trim the current folder path from result-set
I have a grep command like below to search for all .xml files containing given string.
grep -rl 'product_list_toolbar_pager' --include='*.xml' --color=always
Now I am using this command on remote ...
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Input password in terminal's password field without keyboard
I have several temporary accounts in my PC which I use for testing and I switch in between them very frequently. Let say one of them is test and other is test1. I am working on test and I have to go ...
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Why doesn't CD .. throw an error but other incorrect commands do? How to have it give me an error? [duplicate]
From my understanding, bash is case sensitive. So cd .. would work and CD .. wouldn't.
However, inputting CD .. doesn't throw any errors (it doesn't do anything). Why is that? If I type an incorrect ...
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Bicon. Incorrect exit from shell, open in ranger
Installed bicon-git, this is written in .bashrc
# hack to launch bicon if not launched
if ! [[ "$(ps -p $(ps -p $(echo $$) -o ppid=) -o comm=)" =~ 'bicon'* ]]; then
bicon.bin
fi
Launch ranger
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grep works in bash script but not in terminal
I have a strange behavior in my terminal.
The following command prints nothing to my terminal:
comment=$(
cat /usr/share/applications/brasero.desktop |
grep '^Comment=' |
grep -Po '(?&...
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“not regular file” when trying to scp .gitignore file [closed]
The remote directory already contains a .gitignore file, which I want to overwrite and upload a new one. After doing:
scp -P[portnumber] [email protected]:path/for/file/ location/of/file/.gitignore
I ...
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Anaconda python and Zsh issue on macOS Sierra
I have Anaconda installed on my Macbook Pro with macOS Sierra with Zsh as a shell and Oh My Zsh.
GUI is working fine, but I have problem with commands in terminal.
When I want so start jupyter, I ...
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Find & remove files that are uploaded through Cpanel x minutes ago, using SSH
I have a Cpanel login of remote system into which I have uploaded a number of folders and files scattered throughout the structure.
But I remember that I did this a few minutes ago, roughly x minutes ...
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ls has started producing lines of garbage before the 1-column directory listing [closed]
I am using a MacBook Pro. After I tried to add the classpath for MOA to the Java classpath, I started getting the following behaviour from ls. I run the command and the first few lines are this ...
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Tell fswatch to clear screen before running command?
I have the following ruby script, foo, that I'm watching with fswatch:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
puts "hello world!"
on the command line the output looks like:
➜ ~/w/s/g/m/todo master ✗ fswatch bin/* | ...
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Run startx in the background without switching to the new virtual terminal
startx is able to create a new X server in a new virtual terminal. However, even if I run it in the background, ie. sudo startx &, it still switches to the new virtual terminal automatically. Is ...
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How to start talkd daemon?
I'd like to set up a talkd deamon on my machine to talk with other users. The deamon should be set through inetd:
# /usr/sbin/in.talkd
must be run from inetd.
How do I configure inetd to start the ...
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How is implemented the GUI of Vim if is a program that runs on terminal?
I can't figure out how is implemented programs such as Vim (or top for example) that are executed inside the terminal and has a GUI. It is assumed that the terminal can only display characters, and ...
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Flash terminator tab on process exit or completion
Any idea how to "flash" the terminator tabs on process completion? I was looking over terminator_config and set the visible_bell = True but it didn't seem to do what I wanted.
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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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Why am I unable to do a “sudo apt-get update”?
I recently started using linux mint. I am trying to execute the following command in my terminal sudo apt-get update . But I always get this output:
How can I solve this issue?
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Ign:10 http://...
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How do I fix this text rendering issue in Konsole?
There's two main problems. One is with underlines. Underlines don't consistently appear, and when switching windows they may spontaneously appear or disappear. Furthermore, when clearing the screen, ...
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Opening files in the terminal
I'm very new to linux and pretty new to using the terminal; when I try typing
texmaker myfile.tex
on the command line, I get the following message:
QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ ...
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Tile with a lot of images from terminal
Suppose I have a directory with 30 images. Is that possible to create a big image using these images as tiles?
Suppose all images have the same size, like 120x80 and I want to create a big image with ...
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Temporarily change the xfce4-terminal title from within the terminal [duplicate]
How can I change the title of the xfce4-terminal (0.6.3) window, from within the terminal for the current session?
I can change the title by using the Menu bar Terminal, then Set Title....
I've ...
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behavior of ServerAliveInterval with ssh connection
Using ssh I am logging to another system and executing scripts there that creates new machines, and do some setups. It takes around 7-8 hours. So what happened is, the ssh connection keeps dropping ...
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Search all xml files recursively in directory for a specific tag and grep the tag's value
Need to do exactly as asked in question. Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.
Suppose I have directory called 'testmag' which may contain 100s of xml files and directories which in turn contain many xml files ...
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How to play simple notes like a ding-dang sound in terminal
I have written a few scripts to be run under a bash environment. I would like to play a sound after certain commands are executed or results are ready. This could be something like a chime, a bell or ...
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trying to install make : end up with this error - make: *** [all] Error 2
karthik@karthik-Lenovo-G50-70:~/Desktop/opencv/opencv-3.0.0-alpha/build$ make
[ 0%] Building C object 3rdparty/libwebp/CMakeFiles/libwebp.dir/dec/._vp8.c.o
/home/karthik/Desktop/opencv/opencv-3.0.0-...
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Command wraps around same line after 80 characters
I have an annoying problem with minicom connected to a serial console to a Yocto Linux machine.
The command that I enter wraps around on the same line after 80th character. This becomes very ...
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What is causing these strange characters? [closed]
I've been using a CentOS 7.1 VPS for quite some time now, and although I hadn't touched it in a while, I was doing some maintenance and noticed when I went to remove a file, I got the following ...
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Control characters are not displayed in my terminal (e.g., when I press “^C”)
My terminal does not display ^C when I press CTRL-C in my terminal. I have tried setting various STTY options and am not sure what is wrong.
I am running Mac OSX 10.11.16 and this phenomenon occurs ...
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How to configure a “reverse hotspot”? [duplicate]
I'm new to linux and I want to do something like a "reverse hotspot connection".
Then, you guys ask me: "What the hell is that?! And what you mean?"
Thing is, I have a Mint with wireless network ...
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How to highlight specific packages before updating
Whenever I update my Debiansystem I use sudo aptitude (update/upgrade) in my terminal.
This sometimes produces a long confusing list of upgradeable packages. Most of those are not of my interest. ...
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Solarized colorscheme in fbterm?
I have fbterm installed and I'm attempting to use it with the solarized color scheme. I have not been able to find any information about this. The colors are already added to my .Xresources and ...
