Questions tagged [terminal]
A terminal is an environment for text input/output. Inside the terminal, one runs command-line and text mode programs (including shells).
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How to delete buffered text written to terminal during script execution
Let's say hypothetically I'm executing a long-running bash script, and while it's running, I accidentally right click on the terminal and paste a sensitive password (freshly copied out of a password ...
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Arch Linux - idevicerestore: Device failed to enter restore mode
I am trying to restore an dusty old iPhone. I forgot the passcode so it's deactivated now. I installed the idevicerestore AUR from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/idevicerestore. I put the iPhone ...
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change the stdio/stderr font color for terminal
I am using a dark theme. As you can see, the errors (ModuleNotFound from python) is almost unreadable.
I have two questions.
Is this colour controlled by python or the terminal?
How can I change the ...
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Password revealed in terminal after empty password attempt [closed]
In Ubuntu (maybe other distros too) terminals it appears that password echoing gets enabled between failed password prompts revealing whatever is being typed (the password most probable).
I ...
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What does Ctrl+L do "under the hood", if not invoke clear?
I've noticed that using Ctrl+L to clear my terminal has some differences from using the clear command (from ncurses 6.5.20240427).
It seems that the clear command will wipe every character in the ...
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is it possible to invoke mc with a tar.gz path as a parameter to open mc directly inside the tar.gz?
I am trying the obvious:
mc file.tar.gz
but the tar.gz is not opened
any ideas?
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Why does tab autocomplete sometimes not work?
In bash (Ubuntu 24.10, but I guess this would apply to other versions/distributions) when you type in a console a command you can use TAB to autocomplete the filenames of the current directory. ...
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Why are some terminal control characters shadowed by readline
stty -a shows cchars: stop = ^S, reprint = ^R.
Ctrl-r is shadowed by readline's reverse-search-history, so when I press it I get the readline function
Ctrl-s is not shadowed by readline's forward-...
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Debian: How to apply a new keyboard layout but without reboot?
Through VirtualBox was installed Debian 12 as server and is need it to change the keyboard layout.
I did do a research on Google and mostly taking the following link as main reference:
Keyboard
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Trying to to install symas for openldap on an M3 Mac running Arm64 Rocky Linux 9 gives an error
First, we will install the packages onto VM1 with
sudo wget https://repo.symas.com/configs/SOFL/rhel8/sofl.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sofl.repo:
[bill@target ~]$ sudo wget https://repo.symas.com/configs/...
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Starting htop from konsole vs launcher acts different - Slackware 15.0 KDE
I want to ask mostly out of curiosity to understand, what detail can have impact on behavior of htop program (or any other in the future) in following case. By default I had htop v3.1 installed, but ...
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Help me understand how Apple IOS does compression
There is zip, and info-zip, correct?
Am I missing something? In debian when I create a zip using -Z store, or the -0 option, on a folder with -r, it shows that zip version 1.0 is needed using the file ...
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Ubuntu budgie: app in autostart run once then disappears
configured guake terminal to autostart at login, in startup ubuntu app
The command is:
guake --show -e "sudo nethogs -b"
When I reboot, or logout and login, the terminal starts, but if
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create unique folder on startup with rpi cam
I have a pi cam on a pi zero that needs to run for the whole duration of being on. this pi camera module is being used in stratospheric launch and during our last one we were able to get videos back, ...
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How can I run commands on one shell from another?
I am currently using yazi as a TUI file manager, and one thing I wanted to do was set it up with my terminal emulator in a multi-pane view to have the file manager and a command line synchronized.
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