As a LAMP developer considering moving to a .Net IIS platform, one of my concerns is the loss of productivity due to lack of shell... Has anyone else had this experience? Is there possibly a Linux shell equivalent for Windows? ...
While I grew up using Windows, I transitioned to my much-loved Mac years ago. I don't want to start a flame war here on operating systems. I do, however, want a terminal a little closer to what I'm used to. I'm not asking for full POSIX support - I don't have the patience to install CygWing - but I miss tabbed terminals, being able to...
I'd like to have a python program alert me when it has completed its task by making a beep noise. Currently, I use import os and then use a command line speech program to say "Process complete." I much rather it be a simple "bell." I know that there's a function that can be used in Cocoa apps, NSBeep, but I don't think that has much ...
Does anyone know of a good Command Prompt replacement? I've tried bash/Cygwin, but that does not really meet my needs at work because it's too heavy. I'd like a function-for-function identical wrapper on cmd.exe, but with highlighting, intellisense, and (critically) a tabbed interface. Powershell is okay, but the interface is still la...
Terminals and shells are very powerful but can be complicated to learn, especially to get the best out of them. Does anyone know of a more GUI based command shell that helps a user or displays answers in a more friendly way? I'm aware of IPython, but even the syntax of that is somewhat convoluted, although it's a step in the right direct...
I loath working on the command line in Windows, primarily because the terminal application is wretched to use compared to terminal applications on linux and OS X. Major complaints No standard copy/paste. You have to turn on "mark" mode and it's only available from a multi-level popup triggered by the (small) left hand corner button. ...
As I build *nix piped commands I find that I want to see the output of one stage to verify correctness before building the next stage but I don't want to re-run each stage. Does anyone know of a program that will help with that? It would keep the output of the last stage automatically to use for any new stages. I usually do this by sendi...
Is there a terminal program that shows the difference between input, standard output, error output, the prompt, and user-entered commands? It should also show when standard input is needed vs. running a command. One way would be to highlight each differently. The cursor could change color depending on if it was waiting for a command, ...
What should I type on the Mac OS X terminal to run a script as root? ...
I'm trying to have the same KDE Konsole experience within Mac OS X. Here's my (overly complicated?) setup: I have Control and Command swapped at the System Preferences level. (Can't live without this) Parallels lets you, at the Parallels application level, also reverse Control and Command. So I can undo the System Preferences settin...
How do some programs edit whats being displayed on the terminal (to pick a random example, the program 'sl')? I'm thinking of the Linux terminal here, it may happen in other OS's too, I don't know. I've always thought once some text was displayed, it stayed there. How do you change it without redrawing the entire screen? ...
Is there any way in the OS X Terminal to move the cursor word by word? I knwo the combination CTRL+A to jump to the beginning of the current command, and CTRL+E to jump to the end. But is there any way to jump word by word, like ALT+Left/Right in Cocoa applications does? Thanks in advance, Arne ...
I am reasonably happy with Terminal.app and very unhappy with iTerm (the damn thing keeps crashing), but am I missing out on a better, more feature rich OS X terminal? ...
My keyboard acts flaky when I use a terminal session on OS X (another question?), so using the command line is often frustrating. Other native applications seem fine and don't suffer the same problem. Is there another terminal application that might work better for me? ...
hi there, I've used poderosa(a .NET terminal app) to monitor logs on multiple linux/solaris servers. This application is NOT getting currently maintained and I've had several problems with it. I'm wondering what other users do to simultaneously monitor several logs in real-time(as in tail -f logfile). I would like to be able to tab/cas...
when i have to use MSwindows i always open a cygwin window so would like to know whats your favourite commands when using cygwin ? some of mine are : tail -c anylog //to wathc logs file continuously locate somefile //find file alias longCommand ='tail -c anylog |grep --color "term1\|term2\|term3"' cat *.txt //print all conte...
I'd like to be able to determine if a directory such as a '.app' is considered to be a package or bundle from Finder's point of view on the command line. I don't think this would be difficult to do with a small shell program, but I'd rather not re-invent the wheel if I don't have to. ...
If I do something like: $ cat /bin/ls into my terminal, I understand why I see a bunch of binary data, representing the ls executable. But afterwards, when I get my prompt back, my own keystrokes look crazy. I type "a" and I get a weird diagonal line. I type "b" and I get a degree symbol. Why does this happen? ...
For some reason after I installed Boot Camp, my os x terminal started to point to the Boot Camp drive instead of my os x home directory by default! Once in the terminal I know how to switch back an forth and am able to do that, but I was wondering how to make my terminal default back to my os x home folder? I've checked my Home Director...
I know how to lighten the colors for certain commands, however I'd like to lighten the standard ansi colors across all commands. ...