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Create two separate windows in terminal

Picture a terminal. There are two windows inside that terminal. One on top, one on bottom. The top one is much bigger. The top one receives asynchronous updates. The bottom one is for user input. It would work almost exactly the same as vim - the text editor. I'm writing this in Python. I'm guessing you would do this by using curses,...

Hide cursor on remote terminal

I have an open socket to a remote terminal. Using the answer to "Force telnet client into character mode" I was able to put that terminal into character mode. My question is, how do I hide the cursor in the remote terminal using this method? ...

Using BASH - Find CSS block or definition and print to screen

I have a number of .css files spread across some directories. I need to find those .css files, read them and if they contain a particular class definition, print it to the screen. For example, im looking for ".ExampleClass" and it exists in /includes/css/MyStyle.css, i would want the shell command to print .ExampleClass { color: #ff00...

Trying to cat files - unrecognized wildcard

Hello, I am trying to create a file that contains all of the code of an app. I have created a file called catlist.txt so that the files are added in the order I need them. A snippet of my catlist.txt: app/controllers/application_controller.rb app/views/layouts/* app/models/account.rb app/controllers/accounts_controller.rb app/vie...

How to build your non-gui Java program into a console program.

I dont know how to describe it well, but i will try. Ok, i want to be able to build my java program so that when it opens, it will look and work exactly as it does in the console. So it reads the Scanner class and prints normally, and does everything it would do if it was in the console. Ive looked around for this and havent found anyt...

Adding icon to gcc executable and opening in terminal.

I made a program to connect to a device via Bluetooth and send the data to the web using pure C in gcc. I won't be able to implement any GUI portion in the code right now but I need to deploy it to test users for testing. I want to have the executable with an icon so that a user can click on the executable and the program starts in the t...

Recipes/tutorials/libraries for GUI-like terminal navigation (vim/lynx-style)?

Several console based applications like vim or lynx offer a rich user interface which enables the user to navigate freely around the console, manipulate data directly on screen, access menus and much more, similar to "modern" gui applications. How is that being achieved in principal on Unix/Linux with C++? Do you directly manipulate some...

Chinese text not working in terminal

I'm trying to paste chinese text into terminal but I just get lots of numbers instead. if I quickly paste as soon as terminal loads the paste will work that once but not again? Its utf-8 unicode i'm using. I dont think its the font as it works in textedit the only place I get the problem is in terminal but I need to use it to make my sq...

How can I split the Vim window vertically, and make the bottom panel some height?

With the [N]sp option, I can split a Window and make the Top panel of size N. Is there any way to make the bottom panel of some size? ...

strange output in ubuntu terminal when running a lex program

Hi. I'm running a lexical analyzer using lex, and I've got it mostly correct, but my terminal gives strange output once I take out an ECHO statement I was using to help debug the code. With that statement, my output looks like this: max@Max-Ubuntu:~/Desktop/Compiler Project/project2$ ./a.out <../cmmFiles/expression.cmm VOIDID(){ INT...

Why can't I display a unicode character in the Python Interpreter on Mac OS X Terminal.app?

If I try to paste a unicode character such as the middle dot: · in my python interpreter it does nothing. I'm using Terminal.app on Mac OS X and when I'm simply in in bash I have no trouble: :~$ · But in the interpreter: :~$ python Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type...

Mac OS X pygame input goes to Terminal instead of Python

I'm having trouble running a pygame based app on Mac OS X via Terminal. Input events such as keystrokes go to the Terminal instead of my Python app, and are detected by pygame. For example, I have the following test script: import pygame pygame.init() screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480)) done = False while not done: pyga...

Equivalent of running $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] when running php in terminal

Hey all, I was wondering if there is some variable that will return what $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] returns when I call PHP like this: ./somescript If not, how do people get around this case? I'm looking to be able to call the same script (a template compiler) in both the web browser and the terminal. Thanks! Matt Mueller ...

Is there anyway to get pdb and Mac Terminal to play nicely?

When debugging my django apps I use pdb for interactive debugging with pdb.set_trace(). However, when I amend a file the local django webserver restarts and then I cant see what I type in the terminal, until I type reset. Is there anyway for this to happen automatically? It can be real annoying, having to cancel the runserver and reset...

can i do multiple things in one command on linux?

I'm testing something where I'm compiling some code and analysing output with a Perl script. So first I run make, manually copy & paste the output to errors.txt and then running my Perl script (running: perl analysis.pl) in terminal. Is there away I can do this just with one line in bash? ...

MySQL: SSH Connection through Terminal in MAC

Hi Thanks for reading my question. I currently use Mac Terminal to use MySQL. I connect to either localhost or a remote server. Should I be using SSH? ...

Downloading all ctrl alt del webcomics using terminal.

I've tried using the following commands to download the ctrl alt del comics. $ for filename in $(seq 20021023 20100503); do wget http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/"$filename".jpg; done I get the following error code, "bash: syntax error near unexpected token 'do'" I've also tried using cURL, using this command, curl http://ctr...

More than one emacs terminal

I am getting more and more used to doing everything from inside emacs, but it seems that eshell, shell and term will only run one instance each. Is there a way to run multiple terminals (preferably term) inside emacs? ...

pdf2swf using MAC OS Batch command or Apple script

How do I write a batch process on the Mac for pdf2swf, I want to convert all pdfs in a folder into swf. But pdf2swf doesn't have a option to convert a folder of pdfs to swfs, you have to do it one at a time. I'm not sure how if I should use a Apple script or a Shell script, either one I'm not sure how to get or assign a file name variabl...

How do I prevent access to a php script if not called with a comandline application like curl

How do I prevent access to a php script if not called with a comandline application like curl? I'm working on a web application and it uses a cron script to run it's services. I'm using codeigniter so I have to use a url not a file path. ...