Questions tagged [iterm]

iTerm is an enhanced terminal emulator for OS X and macOS

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with OS 10.5 (Leopard) or newer. Its focus is on performance, internationalization, and supporting innovative features that make your life better.

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Resuming curl download that goes through some bash script

I am trying to download a huge file via curl. As far as I can see it there is some bash script hooked in between to deliver the correct file (in that case a virtual machine that runs IE10): curl -s…
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On osx, how to open new iterm terminal tab from one script then run command in that temrinal window

I am running osx. I have a script which runs the full stack then runs grunt at the end. I want to be able to separate running grunt in a separate terminal tab, i am using iterm. I have tried something like open -a Terminal "cd…
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Notification for finished phpunit test in iTerm

I've got a few thousand unit tests in a project which I run with phpunit. Running them can take quite a while. I run them through and ant command though the Mac app iTerm. Is there some kind of toolchain with which I can be notified as soon as all…
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Open project from Sublime Text to new tab in iTerm (not to new window)

I've been using the Terminal package to quickly open terminal from Sublime Text. Only problem is that it opens it to a new window in iTerm, not to a new tab. Is there a way to force it to open to a new tab? From the docs: With the parameters…
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FishShell stopped launching

I was using commands like set -x fish_user_paths $fish_user_paths 'somepath' Than my shell simply stopped launching. Sounds very noobish but I really don't know how to revert it..
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Terminal having problems with whitespace of some operation

After some operation in console I am having problems with whitespace that looks like this: Any command at some point starts to having issues with whitespace. Even ls. Here is the $TERM output: $ echo $TERM xterm-256color % $ Is it…
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Is it possible to specify a custom color scheme for a single vim session?

I have a default colour scheme on Vim which loads every time I open Vim. I would like to load a different colour scheme in some cases, by doing something like vim -custom when launching vim from iTerm. Is this possible?
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background issue with my vim

How do I get rid of the gray-highlight in my vim editor? I am not selecting anything, this is what I see when I load VI. Thank you. image: http://postimg.org/image/xe7uw7nqt/
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My command prompt terminal won't change?

Mac OSX Maverick: Using iTerm2 nano .zsh Inserted export PS1=" % " Control + o File Name to Write: .zsh Control + x Restarted iTerm. And it still goes back to what I had before. What is the issue here?
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iTerm Startup with Commands

I was wondering if it is possible to have iTerm startup with commands to run? For example, I have a default saved layout with 4 panes. One of them I have to startup mySql and in another I have to start up Mongo. I was wondering if it is possible to…
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1. Shell and 1.bash on top of iTerm window?

when I open Iterm, the top of the window says 1. Shell and then quickly changes to 1.bash. Can anyone tell me what they mean? And is it possible to change the title on the top? Thanks!
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Solarized colors for shell don't work in iTerm2 (and Terminal). All colors are the same

How to make syntax highlighted for shell?
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how to display only the current directory and git branch ?

my iterm path looks like the below, I saw the stack overflow post referencing http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528 which didn't work. How to go about getting the file path reduced in size so that I can have a much smaller footprint? ie, only have…
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How do I select a folder directory with a space character using the command line (iTerm)

Its a simple problem but I'm unable to select folders in my directory that contain a space. For example, I'm trying to build a music playlist using Ruby for one of Chris Pine's Programming Problems. The music I want to shuffle is stored in iTunes…
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Git results in another screen rather than under the command

I user Mavericks and iTerm. When I run any Git commands, it displays the result in another screen rather than under the command. It used to be under the command but one day it started using other screen as you can see in the image. I have to type q…
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