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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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Can't get Terminal to Display Colour (Mavericks)

Try: echo $'\e[34m''some text' or echo $(tput setaf 1) some text For more detailed information, see this post: https://superuser.com/questions/33914/why-doesnt-echo-support-e-escape-when-using- …
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Change background of terminal based on host

I believe this is exactly what you want: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/157959/how-do-i-make-the-apple-terminal-window-auto-change-colour-scheme-when-i-ssh-to All credit goes to Yurii Soldak: Put … In the same post, Chris Page writes: A lesser-known feature of Terminal is that you can set the name of a settings profile to a command name and it will select that profile when you create a new terminal
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How would I go about making a stand alone app on my dock to open a game using a terminal com...

/bin/bash cd /Users/Max/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/Dead\ Space/ exec wine Dead\ Space.exe save it as dead_space.command in Terminal, change it to an executabe: sudo chmod +rx dead_space.command …
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Open a new Safari window in the current Space from Terminal with multiple tabs (URLs)

osascript <<EOD tell application "Safari" to make new document with properties {URL:"$1"} return EOD } In terminal: cd to your home directory. …
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