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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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How do I remove a directory that has a file with colon in it
cd to the directory and type rm, press space, then tab. Autocomplete will fill the command with the folder name using the correct escaping to select the folder. You can then delete the folder by runni …
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Change mail back to embedding attachments
defaults delete com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing
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Finding the file that's modified when you run a terminal command?
In general, you can use ‘opensnoop’ which will list files being accessed in realtime. You'll need to disable SIP to use this command.
sudo opensnoop
To use opensnoop on a specific process such as o …
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Alt + left/right on my terminal moves my cursor word by word, however this does not work wit...
In Terminal preferences → Profiles → your profile → Keyboard, map alt-backspace to ctrl-w (\027). …
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Modify terminal .command file to run on multiple files
The only line that does work in that script is
xattr -c "$FILE"
To run a command on all files in a folder, use find:
find /path/to/folder -type f -exec xattr -c "{}" \;
xattr also provides the - …
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Error in SUMO dlr
You haven’t provided a command, only options to a command.
For example, ls -l runs ls with the option -l. Just -l on its own has no meaning.
You’ve tried to run -n …, so there’s no command given.
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Using `say` to read terminal output from a command line tool?
<command> 2>&1 | while read line ; do echo $line | say ; done
Replace <command> with the normal command that outputs what you would like to be spoken.
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Toggle hot corners with a script
wvous-tl-corner is the top-left hot corner. Use ‘tl’, ‘tr’, ‘bl’, ‘br’ for each corner respectively, and use -int 0 to disable that corner.
To find the integer for activating the hot corner of choice …
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Yara in terminal
The default Terminal PS1 is:
computername:directory user$
Therefore, Yara is your computer's name. …
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Is there a Terminal command to know the macOS installed but from an external hard drive or f...
The ProductVersion is stored within the SystemVersion.plist file in CoreServices. This can be read using defaults:
defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductVersion
When you'r …
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Show package contents from command line
You can simply cd into the package to open it in Terminal, then open Contents to open the contents in Finder. …
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What does the Key icon mean when I type in a password in terminal?
It means that what you're about to type won't be printed out to the terminal — it's hidden input. It's not making any reference to Keychain or other security features. …
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`exit` man page
The man page on SS64 was written by the site admin, so will not be found on your system. My evidence for this is the page contains a link to a Q&A on Unix & Linux Stack Exchange including the user ID …
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What does 'Terminal' derive from?
See Computer terminal on Wikipedia. … As @8None1 elaborates in the comments below, the MacOS "Terminal" is more accurately a "terminal emulator" as described in the same Wikipedia article, since a terminal is a piece of hardware while the …
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What do double quotes mean around a domain in `defaults`?
Defaults outputs old-style property lists. - is not a valid key character, so this would be an invalid plist without the quotes. With quotes, the parser understands that the entire string including th …
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