i am having a weird error on mac os x running some shell scripts. i am a complete newbie at this and this question concerns 2 scripts. one of which a friend of mine wrote (videochecker.sh) a couple weeks ago and it's been running fine on another machine.
then last week i wrote capture.sh and it... (2 Replies)
For a long time, when I type man anything on my Mac, both the manpage header fonts and the background was black, so I had to use my mouse to highlight the manpage output to read it. It was really annoying.
The problem was the same both locally or using the terminal and going ssh somewhere.
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Hello,
I am trying to learn how to pass something more than a one-command startup for gnome-terminal.
I will give an example of what I'm trying to do here:
#! /bin/bash
#
#TODO write this for gnome and xterm
USAGE="
______________________________________________
${0##*/}
run... (0 Replies)
Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to post.
I am a VERY basic user here and have been tasked with adding a user to our email system -- we use a squirrelmail interface and I have root passwords etc.
I tried logging in through a browser but get this error:
ERROR: Connection dropped... (1 Reply)
Please forgive me if this is the wrong place to post.
I am a VERY basic user here and have been tasked with adding a user to our email system -- we use a squirrelmail interface and I have root passwords etc.
I tried logging in through a browser but get this error:
ERROR: Connection... (1 Reply)
I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to log back in to unix after logging out. I have a MBPro. If I don't have the window close after exiting, then there is the phrase 'process completed' in brackets with a blinking cursor, but I can't type anything in.
Is it also possible to start the... (4 Replies)
I am using Terminal on an OSX system to access and edit crontab files on a 'headless' Solaris 11 server. Crontab -e on OSX invokes vi as the editor, which is fine, but I am getting unexpected characters on keystrokes and have to abort the edit. If this is an emulation issue, would someone please... (1 Reply)
hi all,
first off thesis my first post so if i am not in the right forum, i apologize.
i'm an absolute newbie to unix. i've been reading my books and studying my crib sheets etc. but... :/
i want to accomplish two things.
1. search and remove duplicate files i.e.. audio, doc alias etc.... (1 Reply)
Hi everyone...
I don't know if this is the correct forum but it is Apple OSX specific.
It is a proper pseudo-man page for the sparse official one...
This is as thorough as experimentation can get...
Command line afplay, August 2016.
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afplay -h
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I was looking for a method of clearing the buffer of the vertical scroll back slider and came across this little Terminal escape snippet I had never seen before:
printf "%b" "\033
SO...
printf "%b" "\033c\033
Performs a terminal reset, buffer clearance, clear the window, set back to default... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
brlapi__getdrivername
Getting Terminal information(3) BrlAPI Getting Terminal information(3)NAME
Getting Terminal information -
How to get information about the connected Terminal.
Macros
#define BRLAPI_MAXNAMELENGTH 31
Functions
int BRLAPI_STDCALL brlapi_getDriverName (char *buffer, size_t size)
int BRLAPI_STDCALL brlapi__getDriverName (brlapi_handle_t *handle, char *buffer, size_t size)
int BRLAPI_STDCALL brlapi_getDisplaySize (unsigned int *x, unsigned int *y)
int BRLAPI_STDCALL brlapi__getDisplaySize (brlapi_handle_t *handle, unsigned int *x, unsigned int *y)
Detailed Description
Before using Raw mode or key codes, the application should always check the type of the connected terminal, to be sure it is really the one
it expects.
One should also check for display size, so as to adjust further displaying on it.
Macro Definition Documentation
#define BRLAPI_MAXNAMELENGTH 31
Maximum name length for names embeded in BrlAPI packets, not counting any termination character
Function Documentation
int BRLAPI_STDCALL brlapi__getDisplaySize (brlapi_handle_t *handle, unsigned int *x, unsigned int *y)
int BRLAPI_STDCALL brlapi__getDriverName (brlapi_handle_t *handle, char *buffer, size_tsize)
int BRLAPI_STDCALL brlapi_getDisplaySize (unsigned int *x, unsigned int *y)
Return the size of the braille display
int BRLAPI_STDCALL brlapi_getDriverName (char *buffer, size_tsize)
Return the complete name of the driver used by brltty
This function fills its argument with the whole name of the braille terminal if available, terminated with a '