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.
Questions tagged [terminal]
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Script executes perfectly in command line but failing in cron
I have created a script to know the successful attempts and failed attempts of users,usually everyday the /var/log/secure file goes to syslog and zipped like "secure-20200910.gz" but without extracting the file i want to read the data, for that i…
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Bash Script terminates when shell terminal is closed
I'm able to successfully run the script below from a terminal in ubuntu 14.04. However, when I close the terminal the vlc process also terminates which I don't want. I've tried using "&" so that it runs in the background, but to no avail…
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Get all files using FTP via Unix Terminal
Using the FTP command in the Unix terminal I want to download all files / folders from my FTP server.
When I use this command:
ftp> mget *
I get lots of these errors:
ftp: Unable to determine real path of `subdomains': No such file or…
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Read files from an encrypted disk?
Is it possible to read from an LUKS-encrypted disk via the terminal, e.g. by booting from a live Linux system on a USB flash drive and accessing the encrypted host computer's hard drive?
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Getting two different results when 'cat'ing a file, and 'cat'ing a file into a variable in zsh?
The file in question is /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status.
When I cat it, I receive Full. But when I do status="$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status)" and then echo status, I receive 1 when I want it to output Full. I'm sure I'm just being an…
LTWood
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Change background color in dialogs bash
I have a server (without GUI), I would like to create a box message in the tty. Is this possible? Getting the example of htop command
UPDATE…
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Change linux shell
On my Centos7 Server I have different shells for my users.
For example the terminal as root looks like:
[root@hostname www]#.
The terminal as a different user looks like bash-4.2$.
If I type echo $0 to get the currently-used shell, I get /bin/bash…
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Why is there an error on running host program using git bash terminal?
I am using git bash as a terminal to run code. I doing a course where it has asked us to use the host program to look up host names using DNS. However when I run nslookup it works fine.
screenshot of error
running host command
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Moving files from one folder to another based on specific condition
I have hundreds of thousands of folders of photos. For whatever reason on the export they created several scenarios like this:
2019/01/01
2019/01/01 #2
How do I write a linux command (ideally which can be run on Mac) which can automatically move…
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Deleted users still apear in terminal output
ubuntu 16.04 lts
After creating a user with useradd
sudo useradd -G sudo -m -d /home/user -s /bin/bash user
and then deleting it with
`sudo deluser user`
the user still appears after typing
ls -l /home
Shouldn't it be gone?
output of ls -l…
loophunt
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how to get file download connections on linux
I have a site with video content (mp4 files).
When people are watching videos, they are downloading video files from my site. I want to know the number of the active connections via the linux terminal. They are probably TCP packets on port 80.…
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FTP connection is succssful via finder in mac, but not through filezilla and terminal
Modifying my question.
There are 2 issues :
1) FTP server in windows server 2012 R2 does not work.
I went through most of the articles and forums and discussion regarding 1st error. But when i try to connect to FTP to the server via safari browser,…
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Remove "Cc: " from mailx command
I have recently setup a mail server on my Ubuntu Desktop 16.10, and I made a script that when a specific user logs in, they will execute the script instead of bash. Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
while [ true ]
do
echo -n "To: "
read To
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MaliciouZzHD
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is there a way to pretty print the output of "ps" to include the "rss" memory value?
I have a python script which takes in processes in csv format and decides things based on what's running, it's name, and how much cpu time it's using. I would like to add processes that also use lots of memory to said script.
The problem, however,…
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Customizing PATH for .zshrc
In my user's composer folder I have 2 executables...
$ ls ~/.composer/vendor/bin/
envoy homestead
I'm attempting to modify my PATH variable for oh-my-zsh so that I don't have to customize the path to this every time.
I've modified the PATH…
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