How to move the cursor word by word in the OS X Terminal
Out of the box you can use the quite bizarre Esc+F to move to the beginning of the next word and Esc+B to move to the beginning of the current word.
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How can I get the current date and time in the terminal and set a custom command in the terminal for it? [closed]
The command is date To customise the output there are a myriad of options available, see date –help for a list. For example, date ‘+%A %W %Y %X’ gives Tuesday 34 2013 08:04:22 which is the name of the day of the week, the week number, the year and the time.
How do I clear/delete the current line in terminal? [closed]
You can use Ctrl+U to clear up to the beginning. You can use Ctrl+W to delete just a word. You can also use Ctrl+C to cancel. If you want to keep the history, you can use Alt+Shift+# to make it a comment. Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet
How to reload .bashrc settings without logging out and back in again?
You can enter the long form command: source ~/.bashrc or you can use the shorter version of the command: . ~/.bashrc
How do I print colored text to the terminal?
This somewhat depends on what platform you are on. The most common way to do this is by printing ANSI escape sequences. For a simple example, here’s some Python code from the Blender build scripts: class bcolors: HEADER = ‘\033[95m’ OKBLUE = ‘\033[94m’ OKCYAN = ‘\033[96m’ OKGREEN = ‘\033[92m’ WARNING = ‘\033[93m’ FAIL = ‘\033[91m’ … Read more
Git is not working after macOS Update (xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools)
The problem is that Xcode Command-line Tools needs to be updated. Solution #1 Go back to your terminal and enter: xcode-select –install You’ll then receive the following output: xcode-select: note: install requested for command line developer tools You will then be prompted in a window to update Xcode Command Line tools. (which may take a … Read more