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Change Mac terminal name before the @
This information is generally referred to as the prompt.
While there are differences between the various shells like bash and zsh, generally speaking you can set prompt options by modifying the shell ...
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Is an image as ".jpe" an ordinary JPEG, just with a different file extension?
If identify says its format is JPEG, you can rename it to .jpg or .jpeg and use it normally (if the file isn't corrupted in any way besides having an incorrect extension). Moreover, some readers or ...
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How to export Time Machine exclusions or list them in Terminal
Here are 3 ways of getting Time Machines exclusions:
Firstly, every backup includes its own exclusion list. At the top level of each backup there is a hidden file called .exclusions.plist, for example ...
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Is an image as ".jpe" an ordinary JPEG, just with a different file extension?
According to Wikipedia all of these extensions
.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe
.jif, .jfif, .jfi
are a valid JPEG file extension.
The most common filename extensions for files employing JPEG compression are .jpg ...
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How do I view inline images in w3m?
From https://ilyakava.tumblr.com/post/616300103655948288/terminal-web-browser-with-images-macos:
First, you’ll have to use iTerm 3.3 or later.
Install the image converter for the terminal:
brew ...
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Change default shell from bash to zsh
In addition to the other answers, you may need to go to Terminal -> Preferences -> General and change "Shell opens with" to "Default login shell".
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Linker command failed (clang-13)
The issue is a bug in the software's Makefile.
It assumes that macOS is always of the form 10.x which it was for 20 years.
The bad lines include
MACOSXTARGET := 10.$(MACOSX_MINOR)
ifneq ($(subst $(...
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Mac daemon not able to run bash script
For anyone else struggling with fdautil (as I was), you need to set the command from the command line before it will work from launchcontrol.
For example:
sudo /usr/local/bin/fdautil set daemon LABEL /...
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Is it safe to use `trash-cli` on macOS?
I can't comment on the safety or security of that app except to say that it looks more complicated than others I've seen - and the one I use. There is a thread here on this subject that may prove ...
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How to run "node index" from a folder in terminal
You may have the cart before the horse here (or even two carts if you really want launchd or cron to schedule your process to run).
I would save your command to a script file and test it with your ...
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How to mount external disk with sshfs and show the name in Finder?
There is a volname argument. Have you tried adding
-ovolname=remote
… when you use ssh to make sftp build a snapshot of the remote filesystem locally on your Mac.
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How to fix unresponsive filesystem without rebooting?
Your best bet is to stop navigating in that folder path and try to umount it. Even a df may put you in timeout mode.
If you think your ssh connection is stale, you could look at ServerAliveInterval (...
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How can I execute a function defined in bash profile, from a launchD plist file?
I couldn't seem to read functions from my bash_profile. Instead I added an alias in my bash_profile to point at a script and pointed my plist file at the same script. I think this is a better ...
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In Terminal, using the "touch" command to mass create consecutive files with leading zero's, with bash, produces different results than zsh
Without installing a package manager and then a newer version of your shell, you could work with the tools you have. Using the builtin command printf you could-
touch $(printf "file_%02d.txt &...
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youtube-dl gives errors: "command not found"
Your homebrew setup is broken. Can you reinstall it and then run brew doctor?
Then you will test the YouTube-dl and possibly reinstall that.
Most of the time you don’t need to uninstall brew but the ...
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In Terminal, using the "touch" command to mass create consecutive files with leading zero's, with bash, produces different results than zsh
The Bash version included with macOS is quite old (3.2.57 as of Monterey 12.3.1) and doesn't honor leading zeros when expanding {01..10}, but newer versions of Bash do (from man bash):
A sequence ...
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How to use `netstat' to show utun (socket) interfaces?
The man-page for netstat lists these options:
A, a, b, c, d, f, g, I, i, L, l, ll, lll, m, n, p, q, r, R, s, S, v, W, w, x and z.
The source code for netstat lists these options:
A, a, b, c, d, F, f, ...
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What is '<<EOS' in shell commands like 'osascript <<EOS'
(Thanks to @red_menace, @fdo, and @nohillside so far. I've upvoted @red_menace's. It's "correct", but I found it difficult to grasp. I didn't really get it, until I read @fdo's link (first ...
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