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Questions about the Terminal application or its terminal emulation should use this tag. Use **command-line** for questions about shells or command-line programs that do not specifically involve Terminal.
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Show text in large type on the screen via terminal
Since you already have QuickSilver installed:
osascript -e 'tell application "Quicksilver" to show large type "your text here"'
You can use this to define a bash function (and put somewhere like ~/ …
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How do I get Terminal to remember previous commands after closing window in SL 10.6.8?
This is controlled globally by enabling System Preferences -> General -> Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps.
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How do I get the Mac Terminal to show the gray font color
On Snow Leopard you can install the TerminalColours plugin, which lets you modify the default colours.
On Lion you get a thoroughly updated Terminal.app that lets you do this out of the box and also …
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Details of the proxy address which is being used by Mac
Either get ProxyConf, which does exactly this.
Or retrieve the web proxy with networksetup -getwebproxy Ethernet (replace Ethernet with the one you're using from networksetup -listallnetworkservices) …
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How to recover .profile on Mac OS?
Show hidden files in Finder. Then you can either fix the problem in TextEdit, or simply remove/rename the file. There is no default ~/.profile on Mac OS X, only a global /etc/profile (and you may also …
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Where is nmblookup in Lion?
On OS X 10.7 (Lion):
smbutil lookup <hostname>
Example:
$ smbutil lookup NAS1
Got response from 10.21.0.133
IP address of NAS1: 10.21.0.133
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How to wake the screen from terminal?
That sounds like your Mac is actually sleeping (suspend-to-ram) and not just turning it's screen off. If the screen was just turned off, simulated mouse/keyboard input from Synergy should wake it back …
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How do I make symbolic links invisible in the Finder?
To hide:
chflags -h hidden <symlink>
To show again:
chflags -h nohidden <symlink>
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show battery in prompt and have it update after every command
The above script is so terribly written it brings tears to my eyes. Considering you're running it on every prompt, you may not want to fork so much.
Awk can do all of the above in one line:
ioreg - …
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How can I switch terminal settings using a keyboard shortcut?
You can do this via Terminal's AppleScript interface, for example to set the background colour of the first tab in the first window to green:
tell application "Terminal"
set tabsettings to current … There are a few crazy AppleScripts out there that adjust the background opacity by emulating keypresses to Terminal, but that approach is too horrible to even link to. …
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OS X Terminal "must have" utilities
MTR (Free) by BitWizard - combines ping and traceroute
Installation: brew install mtr --no-gtk
Packets Pings
Host …
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How do I delete a locked, invisible file in the Trash?
The file could simply still be open by something. Use lsof <file> to see which process is hogging it, if any.
Otherwise sudo rm -rf /.Trashes/501/Users/myusername/Desktop should get rid of it
If that …
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Lion Terminal remembers sudo password after quitting
By default, sudo retains authentication state for 5 minutes (this is not new to Lion). This default timeout can be controlled with the timestamp_timeout setting in /etc/sudoers (use visudo to edit). S …
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Simple File Transfer Logs
Have a look at iosnoop or possibly fs_usage. Although what you want isn't easy to accomplish without major filtering, because "file transfers" can be a lot of different things at syscall level:
mv o …
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OS X Terminal "must have" utilities
Inconsolata-dz (Free)
This is a slight modification of the original Inconsolata.
It is a fantastic monospaced font for use with Terminal.app, TextMate, MacVim and anywhere else you need one. A must ha …