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Cleaning up my .bash_profile: Can I delete some of this?
I'm not a Unix guru.
I'm running OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion. Today I removed Macports from my machine. I believe macports left some cruft in my `~/.bash_profile which I would like to remove (the ...
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Change file association in terminal?
Is there a method for associating file types with applications via terminal? I thought ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist might do it, and I also have seen: Why is a command line ...
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How to remove an environment variable on Snow Leopard
I'm running under Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I recently added an environment variable which it seems to be messing my bash terminal (I guess).
What I did is add the variable ...
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Making checks before rsyncing external drive on OSX
I have the following issue on OSX though I guess this could equally be filed under bash. I have several encrypted portable drives that I use to sync an offsite data store or as an on-the-go data store ...
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How do I make a bash script so that I can drag its input on top of the icon?
I need to make a bash script to that I can drag a .rar file on top of it and then the script will receive the pathname of that file as argument 1 ($1). I have made the bash script, but how do I make ...
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Terminal configuration lost after booting up
On OS X 10.8.3, my Terminal.app is configured with my .bashrc file. In my .bash_profile I have:
source .bashrc
It works great, except when I let some Terminal windows opened and shut down the Mac. ...
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Why does shasum generate non-standard hashes?
As far as I can tell, the shasum that ships with os x doesn't generate the hashes that it's supposed to.
$ echo "" | /usr/bin/shasum
adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc ?-
When I look up empty ...
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Are Bash, Bourne, and Korn shells compiled into one binary in OSX?
On OSX 10.8, if you compare the binaries for bash, sh, and ksh, a few different shell options, they are the same size. If you take it further and cmp the binaries, there seems to be only a ...
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Bad escaping in my bash prompt
I have reason to think I've got improper escaping in my bash prompt (I get weird random line wrapping in Terminal).
Can anyone point it out? It looks OK to me ...
export PS1="\033[0;35m\u\033[00m on ...
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Can an alias be added to the dock via the command line?
I found this article but it handles the GUI solution.
I would like to automate the setup of a new machine, and do that I've created Dropbox shares of a number of my common configurations. (I could ...
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Alt-. and vertical bar (pipe) on terminal
On linux consoles I always use Alt + . to get the last argument of the previous command in history.
for example if I had
ls /tmp/test
as last command, and if I type
rm Alt -
this will result ...
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Equivalent to Alt on terminal [duplicate]
On linux consoles I always use Alt + . to get the last argument of the previous command in history.
for example if I had
ls /tmp/test
as last command, and if I type
rm Alt -
this will result ...
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Load .bash_profile automatically on Terminal.app startup?
I have seen various questions that ask something similar. They suggest changing .bash_profile to .profile. However this doesn't work either.
I have aliases setup up in .bash_profile. I would like ...
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How to find delay when launching new Terminal (iTerm)
When I press CMD+N in iTerm2 to bring up a new iTerm window, sometimes it takes 10 seconds before I get my prompt. If I immediately repeat the process, the whole thing takes 1 second. To me this ...
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Terminal not logged in properly
I'm having a bit of an odd issue with my terminal.
I'm used to the prompt being Joosts-Macbook:~ Joost$ or something of that nature, but all of a sudden it displays a number I don't recognise: ...
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How to reset $PATH?
I was trying to add something to $PATH and it went totally wrong. I now can't run any commands such as ls. I've looked at this answer and used the following lines:
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pbpaste and aira2
I'm creating alias to do few things and run into a problem:
Alias executes couple commands and on success starts download of resulting url, which is being copied into clipboard. Everything works fine, ...
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How do I verify the integrity of my OSX installation? (Files, versions, and preferences)
I want to verify the files, and configuration settings for my OSX installation against a known good reference "base".
Assuming I have two identical Macs (hardware), with one being factory installed ...
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“sed” or “awk” launched on opening terminal window
At some point, I've noticed strange behavior of Terminal app - now on opening new window i get this as normal:
Last login: Tue Nov 27 11:54:21 on ttys001
but can't see the "~" sign afterwards and ...
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declare -x messages appear in my terminal. How can I get rid of it?
declare -x Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render="/tmp/launch-qoybJQ/Render"
declare -x Apple_Ubiquity_Message="/tmp/launch-DWchNf/Apple_Ubiquity_Message"
declare -x COMMAND_MODE="unix2003"
declare -x ...
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How to change mc (midnight command) bash prompt on OS X?
I observed that my custom bash prompt does not work on mc. How do I customize it?
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Set default shell to MacPorts bash in Mac OS X 10.6.8?
As a follow up to my previous question, I reinstalled my MacPorts and want to try its newer version of bash again.
I installed the newest bash via MacPorts on my Mac OS X 10.6.8 system, but when I ...
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Terminal and bash can't start with libiconv error
I just tried to start Terminal.app in Mac OS X 10.6.8, and got the following error:
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib Referenced
from: /bin/bash Reason: Incompatible ...
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How did my Mac end up with iPhone 4S as my host name in the user prompt in OS X terminal?
The other day I was searching for Xcode iOS 5 tutorials. About a day or two later, I noticed my terminal prompt is now "iPhone4s : myusername". Naturally , my biggest fear is that there could be a ...
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logger vs syslog -s
What exactly is the difference between using logger and syslog -s? According to its manpage, logger provides interface to the system log module, but I can't really see the point given that syslog(1) ...
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mount is adding a quarantine flag, causing: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted - but not the usual suspects
OK, I'm having a similar problem to: -bash: Applications/mvim: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted - but it's not the same problem. I'm getting the same result.
I've already verified ...
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How can I have my shell always start in a certain directory that is not my home directory
I've tried putting
cd /Users/my_name/my_directory/structure
in both .bashrc and .bash_login but neither works, i.e. when I open a new terminal window I am in my home (/Users/my_name/) directory.
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I have lost the prompt on Terminal on my Mac; unable to get commands to work
I was trying to launch a few Java applications using the terminal. The command that I was instructed to launch it with (I was following a guide) was the following:
#!/bin/bash
cd "$( dirname "$0" )"
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How to edit mp3 tags from command line with native api calls [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a good command-line ID3 tool for OS X?
With mdls most (not all) of the ID3 tags can be listed. But how to modify them. From iTunes one can edit most of the tags ...
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How can I set and use a PATH component with blanks in bash?
I have Mathematica 8 installed on my OS X Mountain Lion laptop. I want to set my PATH so that I can run either MathematicaKernel or Mathematica from the command line. To this end I have configured my ...
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How to reset the terminal before command execution?
I've been looking at spicing up my Terminal experience by among other things, adding some color. I used the tput command to build a nicely looking prompt. This is part of my .bash_profile:
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Set terminal window title in a script
I would like to change the entire title of the terminal window for a particular bash script. I googled out but I couldn't find much more than this suggestion:
printf "\e]0;My Custom Title\a"
After ...
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Can't create alias for 'nano ~/.bash_profile'
I tried to make an alias to edit my bash profile, but when I save and relaunch a new window, I get the following:
Last login: Sun Jul 22 12:00:25 on ttys001
-bash: alias: nano ~/.bash_profile: not ...
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How can I change my default bash shell to a different one - /usr/local/bin/bash
How can I set my /usr/local/bin/bash (which is the 4.2 version that allows auto-completion of 'cd to directory with directory name') to be my default bash for a new window instead of my regular ...
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Change owner for all files owned by x
I copyied files from my MacBook, mainly files from /usr.
The one and only user on my computer is called 'Julian' (like on my MacBook).
A lot of the copied files are now owned by '501' (id of "Julian" ...
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How can git auto-complete branches at the terminal command line?
On my linux machine I have autocomplete for branches with git.
For example I can type git checkout [TAB] and get a list of branches.
Or I can type git checkout feb* [TAB] to get all branches that ...
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Executing program through Terminal
I have Sage (math program) and I want to execute it through terminal.
I know I can go to the directory and execute it with -
open Sage.app
But would I really want to do is simply type sage in ...
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Why doesn't the screen command source my .profile?
When I start a new screen, the aliases that I have set in my ~/.profile do not seem to be sourced.
Does anyone know where I can change this or which file is actually read when starting a new screen?
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cd to a directory just by typing its name?
For example if a directory 'blob' exists, I just type 'blob[return]' and the system cds into the blob directory for me.
In Linux (Ubuntu) I can use shopt -s autocd and I add it to my .bashrc file, ...
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How to add a directory to my path that includes a colon and a space?
I installed MIT/GNU scheme and am trying to add the directory to my $PATH variable so that I can run it from Terminal.
The app name MIT:GNU Scheme.app is a veritable "perfect storm" (for path names) ...
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Why does my Terminal command line screw up like this? (bash's fault?)
When I use the command line history ( CtrlR , CtrlP )
The command line screws up like this:
The cursor is supposedly located at the end of the line ( just pressed CtrlE )
If I press enter, just ...
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How do I find where an environmental variable got set?
I installed a program to try it out, and decided I didn't like it so I moved the app to the trash.
Today, in my shell, I noticed that there are a couple of PROGRAMNAME_BLAHBLAH environmental ...
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bash file recovery?
I think I messed up my bash file /bin/bash when trying to create my first script, it displays a message saying "process completed" and locks my terminal, if I switch to another shell e.g sh, then it's ...
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Executables in /bin and /usr/bin are not found in path
Somehow I can’t execute files in /bin or /usr/bin without providing the full path.
This isn’t happening when running from Terminal, but, for example, iTerm can’t run bash (only /bin/bash), OnyX ...
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What is the difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc?
To make an alias for the Terminal in OS X, you can either put the aliases in .bash_profile or .bashrc. What is the difference between the two and why would I choose to put aliases in one and not the ...
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iTerm2 terminals close immediately with “argpath=login error=No such file or directory”
Whenever I try to open a new terminal window in iTerm, it closes right away after displaying this:
## exec failed ##
argpath=login error=No such file or directory
Does anyone know what is causing ...
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How to make bash (Terminal.app) remember history of previous sessions?
In my computer at work, my bash shell remembers history from previous sessions, even if I just opened a new terminal.
In my computer at home, this doesn't happen.
I have the same OS 10.6.8 in both ...
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How do I execute a bash script that requires root privileges?
I have this script lines from my ISP:
sudo bash
echo "plugin L2TP.ppp">>/etc/ppp/options
echo "l2tpnoipsec">>/etc/ppp/options
It works if I paste line by line into Terminal.
I want to ...
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Allow the Terminal.app to pass command key based keystrokes to terminal programs
I want to allow programs running in the terminal the ability to interpret the keyboard short cut Cmd + S
I have already Remapped the Terminals' default binding of Cmd + S to Ctrl + S via the ...
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How to search for a file by a hash value with bash script (terminal)?
I am writing a script for Mac OS X Lion 10.7 and I would like to know how I can search for files based on their SHA1 hashes. I would like to search the whole file system for the file(s) I will be ...
