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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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In terminal, modify the text that comes before $
In terminal I can always see which path I'm in:
macbook-romeo:School romeovs$ echo "example command"
which I find quite useful. …
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Cannot trash a file?
I want to delete a file because it's of no use to me yet I seem unable to do so. I've gone through these steps so far:
Put file in trash, empty trash. -> Mac keeps on telling me: 12 items to remove. …
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mac asking password after cd in terminal
I'm using zsh
EDIT:
The terminal asks for a password at random moments, for random directories. Not a clue as to any pattern. …
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Use MacVim as standard Terminal?
This breaks the symmetry though, I have to use terminal.app to navigate to a file, edit in MacVim (using mvim of course), quit MacVim and open up the terminal again. … Isn't there a way to use MacVim in stead of terminal to do all this? I'm not talking about iTerm 2 etc, these apps don't cut is for me. I'm talking about true unix command line in MacVim.. …
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Change font of Terminal programmatically w/o restarting
/usr/bin/env osascript -l JavaScript
function run (argv) {
var terminal = Application('Terminal');
terminal.defaultSettings.fontName = 'creep';
terminal.defaultSettings.fontSize = 16;
// these …
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Why doesn't .bashrc run automatically?
I put some alias commands in my .bashrc file, so that they might be loaded everytime I open a new Terminal window. Yet this doesn't happen. … I have to select run script: in the Terminal>Preferences>"MyDefaultTheme">Shell prefpane and add:
source .bashrc && clear for it to work... …
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Tmux hampers osascripts display notification
I like to show notifications from scripts using osascript -e 'display notification "Some text"'.
This works fine from the plain shell but it stop working when in tmux.
It just doesn't show the notif …
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Terminal login hangs
Opening a new Terminal window does seem to create tty file (/dev/ttys<number>). … The terminal title is Terminal — login — term big — ttys001 — 89x18 — ⌘1, where term big is the settings name.
There's no sudo process showing up in the Activity Monitor. …
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XQuartz is not starting from within tmux
I'm using the standard apple terminal with zsh as my default shell.
In my ~/.zprofile (equivalent of .profile) I have the following line:
[[ $TERM ! … Everytime I launch an from the command line that requires X11 (like a gnuplot or octave plot) the terminal just hangs and nothing happens. …
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