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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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Why does OS X Mavericks block the purge command in Terminal?
You need to run this command with root privileges. Try:
> sudo purge
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check …
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How to launch TextMate (and probably other software) from the command line?
Such as:
/Applications/TextMate\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/TextMate &
The problem with this is that if the shell exits (by quitting Terminal or closing the window) then TextMate is terminated without warning …
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Can't change folder permissions
To unlock your folder try:
Terminal > chflags nouchg ~/sites/lockedfolder
Alternatively, you could do a Get Info in the Finder, and uncheck the "Locked" checkbox from that window. …
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Auto login with FileVault in El Captain
Run the following command in Terminal:
sudo fdesetup authrestart …
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terminal starts with `no such file or directory` message
You need to edit your profile (.profile, .bashrc, .zshrc, .tcshrc, etc… that is appropriate for your chosen shell) and remove any lines that contain "Enthought". It might be a bit more complicated tha …
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atd stopped working on OS X 10.10.3
That message suggests that you don't have the correct privileges to run atq. Try running it with sudo from the command line to see if that helps i.e.:
> atq
atq: cannot regain privs: Operation not pe …
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Permanently show hidden directories
Files & folders that start with a period will always be hidden in the Finder, and in Terminal listings (ls command, unless you use the -a flag i.e. …
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TimeMachine restore issue
It sounds like your $PATH is not set correctly. All you probably need to do is set your $PATH in your shell config (.profile, .bashrc, .zshrc, etc… for whatever shell you are using).
For bash derived …
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Improved Terminal autocomplete funcionality (similar to Matlab's)
This is a feature of the shell. Control-R will do what you describe, but changing to a more modern shell will get you so much more. Take a look at Z-shell (zsh), there is a bit of a learning curve, bu …
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How to correctly handle two different versions running commands from Terminal?
The safest way is to make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin in your $PATH variable.
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After typing sudo I can no longer autocomplete commands by pressing Tab
It would help to know what shell you are using. This works for me in both bash and zsh. The completion in zsh is much better than bash.
One thing you could do is to type the command you want using t …
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How to undo "sudo rm -rf /etc/apache2/other/+php-osx.conf"
You can't undo what you did, unless you can recover the files from a Time Machine backup. PHP probably stopped running because you removed files it needs.
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Make meta + arrows count underscore as words?
Try modifying nxhtml-mode-hook.
(add-hook 'nxhtml-mode-hook
(lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")))
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OS X Terminal not recognizing any commands
Try removing that line from ~/.bash_profile then open a new terminal window and verify that your paths are set correctly. …
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alias not working in terminal
If you follow Sublime Text's recommended procedure of creating a symbolic link to their command line tool you will be able to open files, use as an $EDITOR with git, subversion, etc… It gives much mor …