To be clear, you don’t want a “fast way to move the cursor on a terminal command line”. What you actually want is a fast way to navigate over command line in you shell program. Bash is very common shell, for example. It uses Readline library to implement command line input. And so to say, … Read more
.gdbinit You can tweak your ~/.gdbinit to have colors. You can use mammon’s .gdbinit which is available here: https://github.com/gdbinit/gdbinit You can tweak it as much as you want too. I found this thanks to this SO answer. Here’s the kind of output that you can obtain: A GitHub repository is also available: https://github.com/gdbinit/Gdbinit On a … Read more
By default, *.sh files are opened in a text editor (Xcode or TextEdit). To create a shell script that will execute in Terminal when you open it, name it with the “command” extension, e.g., file.command. By default, these are sent to Terminal, which will execute the file as a shell script. You will also need … Read more
If you use nano with a language like python (as in your example) it’s also a good idea to convert tabs to spaces. Edit your ~/.nanorc file (or create it) and add: set tabsize 4 set tabstospaces If you already got a file with tabs and want to convert them to spaces i recommend the … Read more
Mac OS X doesn’t have apt-get. There is a package manager called Homebrew that is used instead. This command would be: brew install python Use Homebrew to install packages that you would otherwise use apt-get for. The page I linked to has an up-to-date way of installing homebrew, but at present, you can install Homebrew … Read more
To open a file or directory use the command: code /path/to/file/or/directory/you/want/to/open For macOS users, it needs to be installed manually: Launch VS Code. Command + Shift + P to open the Command Palette. Type shell command, to find the Shell Command: Install ‘code’ command in PATH and select to install it. Restart your terminal.
if you have vim installed,try this: vimdiff file1 file2 or vim -d file1 file2 you will find it fantastic.
As Jose answered, screen -d -r should do the trick. This is a combination of two commands, as taken from the man page. screen -d detaches the already-running screen session, and screen -r reattaches the existing session. By running screen -d -r, you force screen to detach it and then resume the session. If you … Read more
I was also having this issue of “You have mail” coming up every time I started Terminal. What I discovered is this. Something I’d installed (not entirely sure what, but possibly a script or something associated with an Alfred Workflow [at a guess]) made a change to the OS X system to start presenting Terminal … Read more
echo “this is the body” | mail -s “this is the subject” “to@address”