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Shell: Customizing the "Display all N possibilities? (y or n)" message
I already know that double-pressing the Tab key on Bash terminal will enlist all files and folders in the current working directory or, when appropriate, show Linux executables that I can run. I want ...
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Why do some applications started using bash "bind -x" hang the terminal?
I have these bindings in .bashrc:
bind -x '"\C-f":"vim -c MRU"'
bind -x '"\C-g":"lazygit"'
and after starting vim using Ctrl-F and exiting it, it leaves the ...
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How do I get the user@os to show up in front of commands in the shell
Currently my shell shows this:
It used to show up like user@distro ~$. How do I get that user@distro to show up in the terminal? I'm using Konsole as my terminal.
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Linux console with different input / output font size
Is there a way to have multiple font sizes in a single linux console?
example:
x@system:~$ ls -a // Font Size 14
. .. td // Font Size 10
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Source files when opening an external terminal through Bash
For a start up script I want to open multiple several terminal windows on an Ubuntu system and execute some commands in each.
Some of those commands require files to be loaded. Normally I do that with
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Is possible to overlay colored texts over the linux console like in this image? [closed]
I do a lot of bash scripts for various needs. Recently I started to feel the urge of implement various indicators on top of them.
Would be cool during an automated unattended installation script know ...
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TTY virtual console + tmux: seems like ~/.bashrc is getting run more than once?
I prefer to use tmux rather than the default linux virtual console (i.e. what agetty uses), so I put this in ~/.bashrc so that tmux runs automatically when I log in to a TTY:
if [[ "$(tty)" == /dev/...
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How to disable vcstime
There's a program /usr/sbin/vcstime which prints the date/time in the top/right corner of your terminals. You can enable it in /etc/kbd/config (on the last line). It's disabled by default.
I'm having ...
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copy from file and paste in the terminal without x server
I have got an Ubuntu Linux without x server installed on it (because it's only a gateway). I am requested by an application (ossec,-my question is not ossec related-) to paste information into the ...
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change terminal appearance according to server
I have 2 different servers (all running Linux) to which I connect via ssh.
After login all terminal background looks the same. I want to have different color themes or backgrounds for different ...
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Can I configure bash to execute "clear" before every command typed in the console?
I would like to configure bash to execute clear command every time I type some command in the terminal (before executing my command). How can I do that?
I'm using Debian Linux.
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