Questions tagged [command-line]
Using programs and commands that do not have a graphical user interface (GUI) but are rather controlled by typing text commands into a terminal program, or shell.
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How to enable horizontal scroll on `less` with trackpad?
I want to use my trackpad in macOS to scroll less horizontally. Is there a way to do this?
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How Do I Set-Up a Synthetic Firmlink in Catalina with Terminal? [closed]
I just dragged myself kicking and screaming from Mojave to Catalina and I like to have my "Stuff" in the root directory of the boot drive.
So, I've already disabled SIP using "csrutil ...
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Make a RTP-MIDI session in "Midi Network Setup" reconnect to a participant after reboot
In a studio setup, I need an RTP-Midi (AppleMidi) session, that is set up via "Audio MIDI Setup" to reinitiate with a participant, after reboot. At the moment, the Session is active but the ...
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How can I tell if the Content Caching feature is working correctly?
I enabled this on a Mac Mini which I use as a server with attached storage.
It's shows that it's "working" and my iMac finds it "healthy" however none of the large updates we've ...
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Open an image from command-line maximized and on second monitor?
Is it possible to open an image from command-line maximized (but ideally not enlarged) and on the secondary monitor (if it's plugged in)?
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Requiring system restart for internet to work every several days
Using my Macbook, I connect to the secure Wi-Fi at the hospital where I work, and the internet usually works beautifully. After several days of sleep-wake cycles, the internet gets slower. Eventually, ...
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Why is mac able to find some bin in PATH but not others?
I recently upgraded Python but encountered some strange behavior: I have both /opt/homebrew/bin and /usr/local/bin in my PATH variable.
python was in both these directories. When I removed the one in /...
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How can I modify the "Date Added" of a file via the terminal? [duplicate]
Whenever I move files between folders or to an external hard drive, I lose the "Date Added" metadata of the files. I need this info for sorting purposes. How can I change that field via the ...
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How Do We Access Sonoma Password Manager Items from the Command Line?
I have some automation that uses /usr/bin/security to pull data from my Keychain. I want to move this data to the new Password Manager (Settings.app -> Passwords), but I can't find the items in ...
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MacOs list package install via curl
Is there a way to find the list of packages that have been installed via curl?
For example I installed the following two packages:
Bun:
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
Maestro:
curl -Ls &...
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Xcode command line tools uninstall not working
I am trying to uninstall Xcode command line tools and I used the command:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
to delete the folder but when I use the command:
xcode-select -p
it still ...
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Misleading diagnostic message
I generally use /tmp/tmp for throwaway files, but when I accidentally missed the slash, I got:
WGroleau@MBP ~ % find /Users -name "Cami*x" -print > /tmptmp
zsh: read-only file system: /...
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Which macOS version introduced "readlink -f"?
The readlink utility on recent macos versions (I'm on ventura) support the "-f" switch, but that has not always been the case. I note, for example, that it's NOT present on 11.6. Which was ...
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I would like to preempt a command on my mac (specifically, Keytool)
I need, when generating Java keystores (which I do frequently), to generate them under the Java 8 version of Keytool. If I use the keytool in the default Java version, they are incompatible with the ...
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pmset: Error 0xe00002bc
I've recently started getting this error when running any of these commands on my iMac (macOS Ventura 13.5.2 (22G91)):
sudo pmset sched cancelall
pmset: Error 0xe00002bc scheduling repeating events
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How can I run bash command with having Sandbox in Swift? [closed]
I made a working app which hides and shows the desktop icons using bash the terminal command for making it, easier to do this job with an UI, it works ok without sandbox and if there is sandbox it ...
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`tput setaf` inconsistency + fail (Ventura, Sonoma)
I'm attempting to customise my bash prompt, so that I get this:
i.e. user-text is in bold, but stdout is not.
It was working, but after upgrading my mac it's glitching.
Machine A: MacBook Pro 2017 ...
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Add "Allow in the background" items from command line
Some of the applications on my system run only if they are allowed to run in the background. I want to run these apps only in certain time windows.
Due to this, I am manually enabling the app in ...
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What is this zsh file generated unintentionally every time I use zsh
The file name is zsh.<computer_name>.local.<random_numbers>. In this case it is zsh.macbook.local.754. It started appearing after I moved all zsh files in the home directory to ~/dotfiles/...
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How to pass file expansion patterns across an ssh/rsync connection
I'm new to macOS but I have some experience in Linux. Now I am encountering some problems with different styles of command lines between macOS and Linux and I hope someone can help me.
In Linux, if I ...
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screen utility (terminal app) installed on my mac and I don't know where it came from. How to uninstall it?
I have homebrew installed on MacOS Big sur. However, when I type brew search screen, homebrew clearly shows that the screen terminal app is NOT installed on my Mac through homebrew. However, in MacOS ...
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Terminal: How to move files to the last used directory conveniently?
I googled to no avail and could not find any example.
For example, if I want to move files to the current dir I can use .
But what if I am in ~/foo and cd into ~/foo/bar/xyz/dir and want to move, say, ...
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What tools come pre-installed on Mac; what is part of the Xcode command line tools; and what should I install myself?
I'm setting up my Macbook, and in the process of installing Homebrew, I installed the Xcode commandline tools. I'm assuming the result of this is the /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools directory, ...
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mounting a bit by bit copy of a partition in macos
Is it possible to mount a bit by bit copy of a partition in macos?
I tried with mount -t apfs backup.img backup/, but it didnt work. Is there a better way?
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Command line on IOS IPad Air 4 (I’ve been hacked)
I have found multiple instances where the only possibility is that I am being remotely hacked through screen mirroring. I believe this for the following reasons:
Remotely
I have found open tabs/...
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Could a 163-bytes size difference between the tgz of two different 590mb dirs be caused just from file metadata? Or is the file data diff?
While trying to remove duplicates of MRI readings I am tarring / compressing (tgz) the top-level directory with a mix of executables, pdf, text, dll, and data in proprietary format (but sometimes with ...
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Convert passwordLastSetTime to date format YYYY-MM-DD on macOS Monterey
The code below from Convert passwordLastSetTime to date format YYYY-MM-DD works great on macOS Ventura machines to convert the date for when the password was last set on a user account. But when using ...
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Apple Mail: display original sender instead of Siri's detected one
I need to change Apple Mail's Viewing > Use Smart Address setting via command line, to deploy via MDM.
Apparently, this setting is AddressDisplayMode and resides in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple....
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Set Mission Control keyboard shortcuts via cmdline
Is there a way I can set my keyboard shortcuts for Mission Control from the cmdline / programmatically without having to use a mouse?
I have changed the keyboard shortcuts such that it behaves similar ...
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Java Error java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError
Trying to run
java -Xmx4G -Xms4G -jar launch.jar
but that leads to error
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: launch.jar has been
compiled by a more recent ...
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GTK4 + brew + m2
I am having a lot of problems trying to run code made with GTK4 previously made on an intel Mac. I made the code in pure C using GTk4 for a gui. I needed to configure my path back on those days and ...
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How does the TTL field work for Unified Logs?
Running log stats --overview yields the following summary of all the logs on a mac.
Comparing the start and end timestamps to the lists of TTLs, I don't understand how these work together. If there ...
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Infinite "bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local:/bin" in Terminal
2 Updates:
I updated bash shell to Zsh with "chsh -s /bin/zsh" which seemed to do something.
I no longer get [Process Completed] or an infinite loop. Just a large block of text when typing /...
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Mac Pro with Startup Security Utility
hi I am trying to remove or disable Startup Security Utility in terminal, does anyone know any commands that can do this so I can reinstall from an external device, for some reason internet recovery ...
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Cannot ssh into machine?
I have a Mac that for some reason I cannot manage to ssh into anymore. I'm completely stumped and am looking for ideas of what to try next (short of reinstalling the whole system). I've tried the ...
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Mac Terminal and applications version installed
I have the zsh in Ventura OS. I know that I have already installed the following apps:
Books.app (which came already in the system)
Brackets
MAMP (Package for MySQL, Apache and PHP)
Adobe Photoshop
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Mac M2 default terminal in VSCode not working as expected [duplicate]
Step by step:
In VSCode I've set the default terminal (Command + Shift + P -> >Terminal: Select Default Profile) to bash (/bin/bash).
Close all terminals, open a new one (Control + Shift + `) ...
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Why did macOS not create a folder in the home directory?
I am using this script to create a folder under the home folder in Terminal like this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -u
set -e
set -x
directory="~/backup/tex1234"
if [ ! -d "$directory&...
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l2ping equivalent on MacOS
Is there a utility like l2ping which can send packets to a known Bluetooth MAC address on MacOS?
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How to find the Bluetooth MAC address of a paired device? [duplicate]
Either iOS or MacOS solution please that works currently with the latest software — haven’t found any working solution online, but I know there must be a way.
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Mac OS: Execute a command in .zshrc (or .bashrc) only for new windows but not for new tabs
I'm trying to change the "default working directory" for Terminal.app and it seems that is not possible (from my research so far). I could achieve this using ~/.zshrc (by adding "cd ~/...
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default Nano Editor in MacOS is scrambling text display, not displaying text correctly with both bash and zsh. How to debug and fix?
I am running MacOS Big Sur 11.7.9. Recently my nano editor stopped displaying text correctly using bash or zsh, and it scrambles text and doesn't properly display text.
How can I debug and fix this ...
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Convert passwordLastSetTime to date format YYYY-MM-DD
Trying to convert passwordLastSetTime to date format YYYY-MM-DD
The command is: dscl . read /Users/<username> | grep --context=3 passwordLastSetTime
I want to convert this number to YYYY-MM-DD ...
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On Ventura, running rsync from launchd gives permissions error
This problem is similar to questions at the following:
rsync errors, but only when run in launchd
rsync "Operation not permitted (1)" error only when run in launchd
Permissions errors when ...
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Manage "open at login" items programmatically from CLI
I'd like to control a Java (not swift / native) application startup during login. While I can add plists-s to user's LaunchAgents, this does not show up as a login item in system settings. How can I ...
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defaults delete is not working
I've made a bit of a mess with my Mac (macOS Ventura 13.5) whose shell is zsh. The problems started when I used python syntax to run commands, as it's a requirement apart of the project I'm doing to ...
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Why isn't sudo authentication in one terminal propagated to another terminal?
When I sudo followed by a password in one terminal and then sudo in another terminal, I have to enter my password again. I am pretty sure it wasn't always like this. If I recall correctly, you could ...
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How to make normal command `ls` and the wildcard `*` in Zsh
Let's consider the interaction with Zsh on a Mac:
% ls |grep gradle
gradle@7
% ls gradle*
INSTALL_RECEIPT.json LICENSE NOTICE README bin ...
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Shell script needs to open images for viewing/previewing
I have a shell script that is going to open two images and then use "&" to return focus to the script. qlmanage is not suitable for sever reasons, but the biggest problem is the ...
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Renaming multiple files with mv gives "zsh: no matches found: *.pdf"
So I have these files:
Movies % ls -l *."pdf - yts"
-rw-r--r--@ 1 staff 1848890 Mar 18 00:11 Scanned Document 1.pdf - abc
-rw-r--r--@ 1 staff 1848890 Mar 18 00:11 Scanned Document 2....
