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sudo: command not found, despite path being set correctly
$ sudo foo
sudo: foo: command not found
indicates that sudo couldn‘t access the command you want to run. Typical reasons for this are
the command (binary) does not exist,
the command is not in $PATH,...
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Possible diskutil info protocol fields?
I solved this a while go and will explain the problem before what I used for the solution.
Probably a lack of experience here with this component of macOS but the need was to collect disk names and ...
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Make Homebrew installed Vim override system installed one
I had similar issues getting the brew version to work. So I added
export EDITOR="/opt/homebrew/bin/vim"
to my ~./zshrc file and ran
% source ~/.zshrc
Worked like a charm.
% which vim
/opt/...
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Terminal: How to move files to the last used directory conveniently?
"~-" refers to the previous directory. From the bash man page:
If the tilde- prefix is a `~-', the value of the shell variable OLDPWD, if it is set, is substituted.
$ pwd
/home/me
$ cd /...
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Terminal: How to move files to the last used directory conveniently?
There is a trick you could try, using the cd command and the fact that cd - changes to where you were last:
$ pwd
/home/me
$ cd somesubdir
$ pwd
/home/me/somesubdir
$ cd -
/home/me
$ cd -
/home/me/...
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Terminal: How to move files to the last used directory conveniently?
From man bash:
OLDPWD The previous working directory as set by the cd command.
So, cp file.txt $OLDPWD should help here (or cp file.txt "$OLDPWD" if you not sure whether the previous path ...
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