VSCode Change Default Terminal
You can also select your default terminal by pressing F1 in VS Code and typing/selecting Terminal: Select Default Profile (or Terminal: Select Default Shell in older VSCode versions). Older:
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How to get Linux console window width in Python
Not sure why it is in the module shutil, but it landed there in Python 3.3. See: Querying the size of the output terminal >>> import shutil >>> shutil.get_terminal_size((80, 20)) # pass fallback os.terminal_size(columns=87, lines=23) # returns a named-tuple A low-level implementation is in the os module. Cross-platform—works under Linux, Mac OS, and Windows, probably … Read more
Is there a better Windows Console Window? [closed]
Sorry for the self-promotion, I’m the author of another Console Emulator, not mentioned here. ConEmu is opensource console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window. Initially, the program was designed to work with Far Manager (my favorite shell replacement – file and archive management, command history … Read more
Linux command to list all available commands and aliases
You can use the bash(1) built-in compgen compgen -c will list all the commands you could run. compgen -a will list all the aliases you could run. compgen -b will list all the built-ins you could run. compgen -k will list all the keywords you could run. compgen -A function will list all the functions … Read more
count number of lines in terminal output
Pipe the result to wc using the -l (line count) switch: grep -Rl “curl” ./ | wc -l
iTerm2 keyboard shortcut – split pane navigation
From the documentation: Cmd] and Cmd[ navigates among split panes in order of use.
How do I find the width & height of a terminal window?
tput cols tells you the number of columns. tput lines tells you the number of rows.
Setting the correct encoding when piping stdout in Python
Your code works when run in an script because Python encodes the output to whatever encoding your terminal application is using. If you are piping you must encode it yourself. A rule of thumb is: Always use Unicode internally. Decode what you receive, and encode what you send. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- print u”åäö”.encode(‘utf-8’) … Read more
How do I output coloured text to a Linux terminal?
You need to output ANSI colour codes. Note that not all terminals support this; if colour sequences are not supported, garbage will show up. Example: cout << “\033[1;31mbold red text\033[0m\n”; Here, \033 is the ESC character, ASCII 27. It is followed by [, then zero or more numbers separated by ;, and finally the letter … Read more
`npm install` fails on node-gyp rebuild with `gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected!`
Even though you have them installed (my case), but by upgrading to Catalina (10.15.*) you can get this error (my case 🙂 ). Therefore, simply installing wouldn’t help as you will get an error that they are already installed. Therefore you need to hopefully just (I) reset the tool or in worse case (II) uninstall … Read more