Questions tagged [terminal]

Terminal: 1) A device or program used to talk to a terminal server, usually over Serial or RDP, 2) A synonym for command-shell or command line, 3) A specific OS X program.

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What are the differenced between SuperMicro console terminal types ANSI, VT100 and VT-UTF8

I tried to find a comparison between various terminal types configurable on SuperMicro console to serial BIOS redirection but I was not able to find any. Can someone make a brief comparison of these? ...
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Debian 10 Unable to install vim, terminator

Today I noticed that Debian 10 is released, however, I am unable to install terminator and vim as the packages are not found. sources.list was set to cdrom, but I changed it to network http://deb....
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Deleted users still apear in terminal output

ubuntu 16.04 lts After creating a user with useradd sudo useradd -G sudo -m -d /home/user -s /bin/bash user and then deleting it with `sudo deluser user` the user still appears after typing ...
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After installing RDS on WinServer 2016 I still can only connect with two users?

What I'm trying to do: I have a software that multiple users are supposed to use on one system. Because a standard installation of WinServer2016 can only hold a maximum of two users at once I googled ...
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Adminstrator cannot log on to server via remote desktop after changing default domain policy

I wanted to enabled remote desktop access for a domain security group so I search and followed the instruction here to get to the setting which was shown as "Not Defined" then I change the setting to ...
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crontab: command not found in CentOS

I tried to setup a cron job in my new CentOS VPS server over SSH. I typed in the command crontab -e and I got the following error message:- -bash: anacrontab: command not found Any idea how I can ...
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Why does writing to the console a process's STDIN is attached to doesn't send input to the application itself?

Taken from this answer: Terminal 1: [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ cat shows on the tty but bypasses cat Terminal 2: [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ pidof cat 7417 [ciupicri@hermes ~]$ echo "shows on the tty but ...
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Putty Wyse60 emulation

I have AIX (v.7) box and using TinyTerm app. However Id prefer to use Putty instead. Problem is I do not have there proper key mapping - I miss there Wyse60 emulation. Is there any way to configure ...
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How to start qemu directly in the console (*not* in curses or SDL)

I seem to recall being able to start qemu with only the terminal emulator output, with the graphic window disabled. And here I don't mean with the ncurses interface, that one is nice, but I want the ...
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What is the export command supposed to do in Linux?

What is the export command supposed to do in Linux?
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differences % and $> command line result end of line

For an exercise, I had to make a file print_groups.sh. When I do sh print_groups.sh the result should be a list of groups of $USER separated by a comma. I had two different attempts: groups $FT_USER ...
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How can I find the path to an executable in OSX

Is there a command I can use to easily find the path to an executable? I'm looking for identify on my local machine - something like pwd? pwd identify => /usr/local/bin/identify
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Random Sleep in Crontab/Terminal [duplicate]

I want in terminal or in crontab(both) be able to put a random time. Something like Sleep $(1-300) pkill screen && ./start just a random simple example
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How to autocomplete long file names in terminal

If I have in current directory a file with a long name starting with "build" I can write in console "build", press Tab and autocomplete type full filename for me. However if I have multiple files ...
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How to exit xen domu when using linux terminal

I usually use putty to connect on a xen domus. To exit domus after using "xm console", it's ctrl + 5 But how can I exit vm console on linux terminal?
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Block select on a Linux console?

Is there any Linux console (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc.) that allows selecting text in a block mode, like you can in a Windows cmd.exe window, using Mark and drawing a rectangle?
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Sending a message to a remote terminal

Is there a way to send a message to a remote terminal similar to using the wall command for other users on the local system? In this scenario I want to specify a username@hostname and have a message ...
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how to get file download connections on linux

I have a site with video content (mp4 files). When people are watching videos, they are downloading video files from my site. I want to know the number of the active connections via the linux ...
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Outlook on Terminalserver loses connection. Event ID 26

Problem Symptoms: Users experience daily disconnects and reconnects in Outlook running on a Terminal Server and have to log in again. They can not log in instantly but have to wait for approx. 1 ...
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Reverse bash console text flow

This is a bit of a weird question and I'm not sure that there is any easy answer to it but I am very interested in finding a solution. So when I work on a linux machine via a console I find that I am ...
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How do I launch terminal commands into multiple tabs?

Is there a way with Applescript to launch multiple tabs in Terminal and execute commands against them? I have a project that requires me to launch several services in Terminal to run and monitor ...
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Solaris 11 find empty folders (-empty not work)

How to find empty dir and delete in Solaris 11. I try this: find . -type d -empty Output: find: bad option -empty find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
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ssh text out of sync when OS X > ubuntu > amazon linux via iterm2

I am frequently running into an issue where the text on my screen is out of sync with the cursor. As you can see here, and here, when I hit backspace, it thinks that it is the (left) end of the line,...
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How to make the 'less' command handle UTF-8?

On my Mac terminal, printing UTF-8 works in general, but the less doesn't work correctly. So this works correctly: $ echo -e '\xe2\x82\xac' € but piping it into less gives something like this: ...
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OpenSSH client works, but Putty can only receive data

There is an application with a custom SSH interface that authenticates then launches a command line utility. It works as expected using OpenSSH's Client: Login Prompt -> Username/pass <- Main ...
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How to display processes using memory between an interval? (in bash)

How can I display processes that are using memory between an given interval in terminal? For exemple: processes that are using between 50 and 100 MB of Memory. I tried: ps aux | awk '{print $4}' | ...
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ps ax | grep java with no wrapping in the terminal?

Is there a way to execute ps ax | grep java without it wrapping on the terminal?
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Install Apache to CentOs 7 installed but not showing in the browser

I hope someone can help me, I am trying to set up a VPS, i have a small VPS to learn on before i use my main VPS. Ok so, I have installed Apache without any problems and when i try " sudo service ...
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Change directory to "This PC" / "Computer" from .BAT batch file

I'm using a batch file to automatically launch a software at login. This software maps a remote drives to which one letter is assigned (R:) and opens the file explorer to R:. I would like to append a ...
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How to Find and delete File Older than 3 years?

I'm new with server maintenance job. Now I must find and delete .JPG File older than 3 years. on linux terminal I have googled and found a script like this find /path/to/files* -mtime +365 -exec rm ...
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I want the bash script to echo only if I execute and not echo if executed by a cron job

I want to echo to the terminal if the script is being executed by me, in the flesh or I want to echo to a log file if it is being done via a cron job. Ubuntu 16.04 example: #!/bin/bash if [ ***** ]...
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Getting ;5D when hitting ctrl + arrow key in a Terminal on FreeBSD

On centos I can skip a word by hitting ctrl + arrow (left or right) in a terminal. When I ssh into a FreeBSD box and I try the same pattern I get: $ tail -f 20120412.log;5D;5D;5D (each try = ;5D) ...
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freeze and thaw tmux and/or terminal sessions?

I would like to be able to freeze and thaw tmux sessions. That is, to take a complex set of session state, persist it, and bring it back from some persistent store later. Essentially, git stash for ...
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Change/add text to current user@server [closed]

Its kinda hard to pick a good title, sorry for that! When you login to Linux, you see the user and the domain where you can type your commands. [user@location domain.nl]$ mv ~/example ~/my-new-...
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Nginx Restart Issues

All of the sudden when restarting Nginx I get the following error: Restarting nginx: [alert]: could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied) 2011/02/...
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Cannot connect to OpenVPN server under Ubuntu 14.04 (from terminal), but all is fine in Windows

In Windows all is ok. In Ubuntu I run command sudo openvpn --config client.ovpn and get TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) ...
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RDS 2012R2 "Preparing the destination computer" Long

I've just setup a new RDS Deployment on a 2012 R2 domain. When client's connect to the RemoteDesktop there is a considerable delay at the "Preparing the destination computer" stage. I can resolve this ...
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Sed command to replace code in every files

sed -ri '1 s/.*<\?php \$xgzdxgn.*\$tdjwdrzy.*\$vbtpmtzqq-1; \?>//g' *.php How to run this command on folders and sub-folders in a single command ( for all php files ). when i try to use this ...
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OS X Terminal lines don't go into scrollback

I have a problem that crops up when using Mac OS X's Terminal (TERM=xterm): sometimes it gets itself into a state where lines that scroll off the top are not added to the scrollback buffer. I'm not ...
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Linux CentOS-7 give a certain user acces to only a certain file path

I would like to give a created user a new home directory and have him only be able to access that certain home directory, however, the directory the user is supposed to access has already been created ...
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How can I launch gparted in centos 7 minimal

I have already installed gparted because I want resize some partitions on a box running centos 7 minimal. So I can ssh into the box and only have access to the terminal. I run the command gaprted to ...
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control + punctuation doesn't register in terminal

For the purposes of using emacs in a terminal, I want to use key combinations like Control-'. But when I try that key combination, it just writes an ' to the command line. The same thing happens for ...
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Displaying multiple terminals in a single window

I'm trying to setup a dedicated computer for displaying server statuses, and I'd like to showing the output of htop for about 5 servers simultaneously in a grid of terminals. What's the most ...
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Recursively removing the content of a directory but not a directory itself [duplicate]

I have a directory which contains other directories and files of unknown depth. How can I delete only the content of the directory -- nested directories and files -- but not directory itself? I've ...
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Terminal Server 2016 RemoteApp Create Windows Installer Package

I'm working on migrating our current terminal server (Windows Server 2008 R2) to a new server with Server 2016. I've installed all the roles on the new server and setup my apps. Works perfectly (...
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"date" returning a month as a 3-char word [closed]

At the moment I call date this way: date '+%Y %m %d' # ==> 2017 12 01 How should I adjust it so that it return a month in the 3-char format? Like this: date '+%Y %m %d' # ==> 2017 dec ...
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What is RDSAppXPlugin?

In windows 2012 event viewer in the "Applications and Services > Microsoft > Windows > TerminalSerices - LocalSessionManager > Operational" path I can see the following event: "Plugin RDSAppXPlugin ...
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ssh -N steals keystrokes

When I run an ssh session purely for tunnelling purposes, I start it like this: ssh -N -L 5432:localhost:5432 user@host & However, when I do so, about every second keystroke in the terminal ...
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Recover a running script from a terminal session

So I'm using GNU Screen to manage multiple running scripts/programs. The multiplexing & detachability is quite helpful. I removed a script from disk and now I'm having some trouble finding the ...
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How can I watch a terminal window remotely?

I left the office earlier with an active terminal window running a script on a Centos 7 server. Now I've SSHing in from home and I want to see where it's got to. Is this possible? Can I rejoin the ...

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