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preventing ssh command from opening xquartz on every session
Whenever I use ssh, after I type the password, xQuartz pop ups in the dock and terminal window looses focus. This happens even if there's no an X session. Why? How to prevent this behavior?
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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 can i reset my Terminal?
just some time ago i installed the OS X Server app on my mac and since this day it always appears server as the chosen directory in my terminal.
But because i dont really like the Server application ...
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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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Check Remote Management Status via Terminal
I need to be able to SSH into a Mac (Mountain Lion) and check if ARD is running and if so, what are the settings. Basically, I need the equivalent of going to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote ...
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Mac Won't Remember Hostname in Terminal After Reboot
I'm trying to set my hostname for my mac. Currently it's unknown002374e31ebd.
I've tried setting it with
sudo hostname -s Steve-Mac
Which will work for all future terminal sessions. However, if ...
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Can an Open Directory (10.8) user's home directory be changed from the terminal?
I'd like to use SFTP/SSH for users (students and faculty) to manage their web content. The default home directory is "/Users//". I'd like to point them to something like "/Users//web" to block access ...
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FocusFollowsMouse, cut-paste from browser to Terminal in 10.8 (duplicate)
Added: this was discussed in
focus-follows-mouse-plus-auto-raise-on-mac-os-x on SO in 2010. In short, accept it,
or buy an addon:
how-can-i-make-focus-follow-the-mouse-cursor.
The sequence:
cut ...
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Disable Screen sharing via the command line in mountain lion
I want to be able to enable and disable screen sharing from the command line rather than through System Preferences. This is on 10.8.3
To enable screen sharing, I find I only need to change a ...
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Terminal: Is there a way to be notified of activity when tailing an error log
I often ssh into a machine and tail -f it's php error log. My ideal situation would be to leave this terminal window open in the background, but when there's activity from the tail command, have the ...
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autossh not behaving as expected
I am trying to use autossh, like so:
autossh -f -i id_rsa -D 8080 user@myserver.com
However, on both an PPC Tiger eMac and a Mountain Lion MacBook Pro, I just get presented with the argument and ...
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Terminal tab keyboard shortcut (cmd+[0-9])
Is it possible to have keyboard shortcuts to terminal tabs with numbers. I know its possible to cycle through tabs. I am looking for something like in iTerm (cmd + [0-9]) directly taking to that tab.
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OSX Removing file under a “.vol”
I have a file I want to remove that's stored inside a ".vol"
501 9984 Corel Painter 1 16 /.vol/16777218/29979256/nTitles Product Licenses IV
I received this by running
sudo opensnoop -n Corel ...
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How do I force a partition and format on a USB key in OS X Mountain Lion Disk Utility or from CLI diskutil?
I have a brand new Memorex TravelDrive 64GB USB disk which is being troublesome.
It's formatted FAT16 on MBR, which is not so nice, and I'd like to put it on HFS+.
I've tried to do this through ...
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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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The Command to enter login items is not working in 10.8
I am entering the login item from the terminal but, this command is not working for me:
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary -array-add ...
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What steps are needed to create a new user from the command line on Mountain Lion?
What commands (or script) can create a fully functional user account on Mountain Lion, running only from the command line via terminal or ssh.
It looks like an existing pair of answers might work, ...
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I want to remove an entry in my $PATH
I'm running OS 10.8. When I
echo $PATH
my terminal outputs
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Terminal not logged in properly
I'm having a bit of an odd issue with my terminal.
I'm used to the prompt being Joosts-Macbook:~ Joost$ or something of that nature, but all of a sudden it displays a number I don't recognise: ...
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Where should shell tools be installed?
Are there Apple guidelines for where user shell tools in Mountain Lion should be installed? Some (e.g. TeX, or Apple's Git) end up in /usr, and others (e.g. X11) seem to end up in /opt (sometimes with ...
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Make meta + arrows count underscore as words?
I find myself using the meta + arrow keys constantly.
When I am editing code, it would be nice if I could count underscores as words so that when I decide to rename a variable it goes to the ...
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Permission denied error when opening Terminal
I'm using a clean install of 10.8. I wanted to add a couple of directories to my path. I tried adding them to /etc/paths using
sudo vim /etc/paths
Now when I open a terminal window I see this:
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Access applications and their folders from terminal
I have a folder that I want to init with git, but to do that I have to 'navigate' to that folder using cd. The problem is when I write cd Applications, that folder is empty and I cannot go into ...
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Editing System Preferences via Terminal
Am looking to edit system preferences settings via the command line but cannot for the life of me find the correct names of variables.
In Login Options under Users & Groups, I would like to be ...
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TimeMachine restore issue
Times ago I did a "restore from time machine backup" in order to restore all my files on a new SSD I bought for my macbookpro (with OSX Lion), and all went fine.
Today I installed Mountain Lion on ...
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What terminal is the Mountain Lion Terminal app emulating?
I recently migrated from 10.6 to 10.8. I use Terminal to connect to various linux boxes where the TERM variable is observed to be xterm-color. This seems to be consistent with the 10.6 setting of ...
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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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Why does the folder icon in my Terminal have a question mark overlaid?
From time to time, I spot that the folder icon in the titlebar of one of my Terminal windows has a question mark overlaid on it, e.g. this one:
What does this mean? It doesn't seem to have any ...
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“DYLD_” terminal error?
So, I've done some searching.. and still haven't found a solution for this. I'm not even sure what has caused it. There are no DYLD_ or LD_ flags being set at all, but I always see this when I open ...
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Can Gatekeeper be disabled via terminal in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?
How can you disable Gatekeeper via Terminal Commands in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion? I am looking to replicate the Security & Privacy preference pane selection to allow applications downloaded from ...
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How do I make the hard drive visible in the Finder?
On OS X Lion I don't see the hard drive in the Finder and I seem to have no permission to create a folder under / from terminal.
I know I can do this if I activate the root user, but I need to be ...
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Can't find/run `configure` script on mac os 10.8
I'm trying to install a program called CSIM (neural micro circuit simulator) and one of the steps is as follows:
Step 2. Run:
configure; make; for Linux/Unix(/Mac OS)
But I can't run, not ...
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“tmutil” claims many files are different, but Time Machine doesn't back them up?
I was trying to use the "tmutil" utility in Terminal to diagnose a Time Machine problem I had. This utility is used to compare two Time Machine snapshots to see what files are different between the ...
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What does the secure keyboard entry menu item in Terminal app do?
What does this option in Terminal do?
It seems to have no effect on anything.
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Cannot write to SMB Share with Terminal OS X 10.8
I am trying to copy some files from my local drive to a SMB share I have set up on my home network using Terminal, but I keep getting this error:
fchmod failed: Permission denied
The share is set ...
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How do I add a service to Terminal's “New Remote Connection” window?
In Terminal, pressing Shift+Command+K opens the "New Remote Connection" dialog box, which includes SSH, SFTP, FTP, and Telnet in the Service list and all Back-To-My-Mac systems in the Server list.
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Opening/Mounting a .img file
How would I do this?
I have attempted double clicking on it (obviously) and I get an error of it saying that its not recognized.
My second though was using Disk Utility (the app) to try and change ...
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Is it possible to set Magic Trackpad option via Terminal?
Is it possible to set the magic trackpad options with the menu topics:
Point click,
scroll & zoom,
etc.
by using the Terminal?
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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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Colorful make compilation output
When I used Ubuntu, I remember that the output of make/gcc/g++ had nice colors, which were particularly helpful when needing to quickly identify errors (they were red).
Is there a way to enable ...
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Mountain Lion - Cycle though windows not working on Terminal
Since updating to Mountain Lion, the keyboard shortcut for cycling through windows is not working for me in Terminal (and is driving me nuts!).
Is there any known fix for this issue? The keyboard ...
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Terminal won't receive Control+← or Control+→
I just upgraded to Mountain Lion and I'm perplexed to find that neither iTerm 2 or the standard terminal will not receive Control ⌃+← or ⌃+→, which I typically use to jump words on the command line. I ...
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How to move the Downloads folder (in Mountain Lion) to another disc
I want the "Downloads" folder not on the system drive but on my second internal drive.
In Lion I just deleted the "Downloads" folder and replace it with an alias with the same name (pointing to the ...
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How do I exit python in the Mountain Lion Terminal?
I'm having a couple problems with basic command line stuff in the terminal of Mountain Lion.
^D does not exit Python as it does in Lion, instead it splits the screen.
Meanwhile, I also haven't ...
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How to install and override Vim in Mountain Lion for +ruby +python support?
I want to install and override the current vim version in Mountain Lion due to me needing +ruby & +python support. I am particularly interested in using the brew commands from Homebrew but I ...
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Warning message when trying to change Standby mode settings
I tried changing the Standby mode settings using the command sudo pmset -a standbydelay 5400 . I set it to 5400 so that it is delayed to 1.5 hours compared to 70 minutes as default.
However, I get ...
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How do I use AirDrop from the Terminal?
Is there a way to share a file over AirDrop via Terminal on Mountain Lion? How so?
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“Missing Quartz Composition” displayed on TotalTerminal
I started using TotalTermianl on Mountain Lion.
But the background have Missing Quartz Composition error.
I have found some people had the same as mine here
Do anyone know how to fix it??
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Mountain Lion Figlet through MacPorts error?
I've just installed Mountain Lion, Xcode 4.4.1 + command line tools, and MacPorts for ML.
It's working for other packages but I can't get figlet to install.
When I use sudo port install figlet in ...
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What terminal commands are new or updated in Mountain Lion?
Where can I find a list of new or updated terminal commands or features for Mountain Lion?
Lacking any list, does anyone have a sugguestion on how to generate that list? (some combination of ls ...
