Questions tagged [terminal]
A terminal is a hardware device used for entering data into and displaying information from a computer. Terminals were frequently used in the days of mainframe computers. Today, most operating systems offer text-based "terminal emulators", which replicate the functionality of a classical terminal, also referred to as a "system console".
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Urxvt bold fonts are not citable
System: Arch/I3 Terminal: urxvt
I tried changing the background to black but the text is still not citable
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Syntax highlighting in macOS terminal during program installation
During compilation of a program in the macOS terminal, the output text is highlighted in several different colours to indicate different things. For example:
I have been searching for a while now and ...
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Change clock settings using terminal
what would be terminal command to change(enable in my case)this setting?
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`screen` takes forever to execute in a certain terminal over ssh
I have a weird issue with screen where it takes 10+ seconds to execute any command, even screen -v:
$ time screen -v
Screen version 4.09.00 (GNU) 30-Jan-22
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Way to force open powershell in cmd or start Windows Terminal with no tabs
I'm starting a new commandline tool from a script that requires user input. To minimize user errors and have a cleaner interface I don't want the new terminal to open in a tab, preferably just in old ...
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Letter "b" in terminal doesn't work only in terminal and other letters is fine in Parrot OS
In Parrot OS when I try to write "bash" for example it's written ^[[1;5Dash letter b in terminal displays as ^[[1;5D and this just happens in terminal in any other app it works:
In other ...
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Why won't tmux let me search scrollback for certain strings anymore?
Something has recently changed about tmux or the software that I'm running within it such that I can no longer reliably search through its output in the scrollback. Some strings are searchable and ...
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Desktop shortcut with a command line argument which contains filename with random numbers
I'm trying to create a desktop shortcut which launches a terminal app with commandline arguments which contains a path to a file with a randomly generated number in the filename.
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Windows 11 - How to open a Terminal with Admin privilege from current folder in File Explorer?
In Windows 10 (I think?) I could launch a Terminal/Powershell from File Explorer with or without admin privilege. I can't find that option for Windows 11 anymore. Is it still possible?
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zsh alias still exists after deletion [MACOS]
I previously worked at a company who heavily used KDB (q) in their workflow. That's why I used this official article to install it. Using 5th step (Step 5: Edit your profile), I added this alias alias ...
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Terminal Powershell differences
When I type dir /A into terminal I get desirable output, but when I type the same to Powershell i get
dir : Cannot find path 'C:\A' because it does not exist.
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Tmux prefix doesn't work unless ~/.tmux.conf is forced
I'm currently including tmux into my work flow but I've not been able to use its prefix like it is set up natively C-b on start. My work around to this problem is to set another key bind on the ...
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Is there a name for the text that shows up after executing each command line in a CLI?
for example in linux terminal I have
jurek@debian:~$ man help
No manual entry for help
I want to know how the second line is called
bc I want to ask an other question "How to copy this term (I'm ...
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How to remove escape sequence from VSC terminal?
Just recently these escape sequences have been showing up on my PowerShell terminal inside VS Code. I've attached a picture of what this looks like:
However, inside the PowerShell terminal itself, it ...
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How could I have VScode on Windows 10 with the default terminal changed to WSL2 Ubuntu-24.04 like a native linux distro?
I'm trying to have inside VScode for Windows 10 (Microsoft Windows [versão 10.0.19045.4474]) options to change the terminal from default to another one such WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04.
I have installed ...
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