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Questions about the Terminal application or its terminal emulation should use this tag. Use **command-line** for questions about shells or command-line programs that do not specifically involve Terminal.

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printf "\033[2J\033[3J\033[H" This command line clears the whole screen in Terminal.app and it clears the scrollback. This sucks! Some poorly-written CLIs that I like to use (e.g. Claude ...
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Battery report shows that Terminal.app is using a lot of battery. Of course it must actually be some programs that I've started in the Terminal. How can I list which programs in particular are ...
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I found this answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/410809/675317 but it does the opposite of what I need — inverting the numbers doesn’t work. For context: I use a US physical keyboard, so I ...
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In my .zshrc i have the alias alias cls='printf "\033[H\033[3J"'. With this I can run os.system(cls) in my Python script to clear the screen (and clear buffer, totally clean, just prompt and ...
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I've run into a frustrating issue with iTerm2 and Terminal on my work MacBook Pro (M3 Max Sequoia). I had set up a few iTerm2 profiles for SSH logins that included passwords. After failing to properly ...
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I have a german keyboard. On this keyboard you can access the pipe ('|') by pressing Option-7. I recently updated to Sequoia 15.5 (I don't know the old version). After the update I can't enter the ...
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I'm unable to change my Terminal app profile (color theme) even when I change it in the preferences. I selected Homebrew as my profile, closed Terminal and reopened it - but it won't actually change ...
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Basically, I want to sync my repo on iPad with git, but I can't find the public key, so I can't clone the repo. I found three different guides, but none of them has worked out for me so far. I first ...
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I am racking my head for an [old login password] (pass1) that is gone from my keychain but still in a Time Machine backup. The password I seek [encrypts an external drive] (pass2), which used to ...
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I tried to use the accessibility/zoom feature on a terminal window which is running a ssh session to a remote FreeBSD host and where after login to the remote system a "screen" session has ...
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Every time I open a new Terminal window or tab, it shows this error before the shell prompt: /etc/zshrc_Apple_Terminal:14: INSIDE_EMACS: parameter not set (I don't use emacs, and I've noticed no ...
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It seems a recent macOS X upgrade changed previous behavior in Terminal. (I'm currently on Sequoia 15.4.1) I'm used to having different windows opened with different settings (that can be defined in ...
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Mac Pro 2009 open core booting Monterey trying to create a bootable usb install disk 15.4.1 for mac mini m4. Not valid for age of mac so Downloaded InstallAssistant.pkg. Not valid for 2009 mac so ...
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Whenever I search the scrollback history in Terminal.app, I nearly always want to do a case sensitive search, but Terminal defaults to case-insensitive every time I hit commandf (or commande - or even ...
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I want to install clang from the LLVM website (18.1.8 at the time of writing), but I also use Xcode which comes with clang 17.0.0 in the command line tools (also at the time of writing). I'm wondering ...
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