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Terminal: 1) A device or program used to talk to a terminal server, usually over Serial or RDP, 2) A synonym for command-shell or command line, 3) A specific OS X program.

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Is there a way to watch all screens output in a single place?

having about 12 screens running long processes, I am willing to check out the state from time to time. I would like to "tail -f " them all in a single console window so I don't have to switch between them every now and then. Processes are running…
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When I hit the set command in the osx terminal where does the output come from?

I get a load of stuff when I type the word set in mac osx 10.8 terminal. I only recognise a tiny bit of it is in my .profile and .bashrc files. I have looked also in /etc/paths I cannot find where the output comes from. I have been searching…
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Get the session name of a parent gnu screen

I know that the current session name can be accessed with the $STY environment variable, is there a way to get the session name of the parent screen session in case of nested screens?
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How to access running application's internal CLI?

I'm running a java application (on Ubuntu) with its own internal CLI but no API or access from outside. One solution I can think of is running this application in its own pseudoterminal and then writing commands to that terminal to submit commands.…
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Curl authentication

I am trying to download a file with cURL from a password protected directory on my site. It is not working. Instead of the downloading the requested file, it downloads a HTML file that says, "Authentication Required!" I'm not sure what the problem…
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SCO Unix 3.2.2: sysadmsh issues

When I type sysadmsh from the console prompt, it looks like this: The way it used to work is that the prompt would be in color and the lines would wrap correctly. I've had a couple of issues with this system over the past year now, and I've been…
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Monit Password Restrictions?

Are there password requirements for a monit password? I'm unable to start monit. Doing monit -t shows that the syntax error is a ! In my password. I changed it to % and then it said that character was the problem. Where do I find what symbols are…
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Keyboard mapping stuffed in terminal

I'm logging into a remote linux box: Linux lbox 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux and my keyboard mapping seems to have gone down the drain. up: ^[[A down: ^[[B right: ^[[C left: ^[[D tab: Real tab (doesn't do…
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How to change the terminal to SCO compliant in Ubuntu

I have a server in which SCO 5.x is installed. I have several thin clients which were supplied from our head office. Those thin clients have linux pre-installed in them. When we tried to connect to our SCO server, we have found out that the thin…
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How to get Network Data Received and Data Sent Information on Mac OS X?

I want to store the network data received and data sent information on a variable or in a file. Using the below command I can grep it and print the line on screen. But I'm not able to store the info in a bash variable. top -l 0 -n 1 -c d | grep -e…
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Continue running a task with terminal disconnected?

Say I'm running a task on a remote (Ubuntu) server which last hours, but I need to disconnect my shell client now. Foolishly, I didn't use screen or think of starting the task with nohup. Is there a way to perhaps pause the task, then start it up in…
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Can't Install npm, Can't Remove npm, Can't Access Any Commands, Can't Install Coffeescript

I am on Mac OS X Lion, I just used the package installer from nodejs.org to install node.js. Node.js is working fine, and Node.js comes with npm. I have homebrew installed as well. I am just trying to install coffeescript, but the terminal keeps…
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Automatic sign on - Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 Terminal Server

Is it possible to automatically pass logon credentials from XP SP2 to MSTSC.exe (and terminal server 2003). It seems Vista/XPSP3 & 2008 support doing this out of the box, but XP & 2003 doesn't. I'm not looking at any third party clients or…
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Ubuntu MySQL installation problems

I have used 'sudo apt-get install mysql-server', and it asks me if I want to install 2 files. mysql-server is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. After this…
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Linux Terminal: Change cursor position after 'up arrow' key press

I just switched one of my systems from Gentoo to Ubuntu. There is one difference between the two setups that is driving me mad, and I cannot figure out how to fix it. When I use the 'up arrow' to go to a previous command, the cursor is moved to the…
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