Top "Terminal" questions

A terminal or command-line interface is a text-only interface for interacting with an operating system or a piece of software.

How to move the cursor word by word in the OS X Terminal

I know the combination Ctrl+A to jump to the beginning of the current command, and Ctrl+E to jump …

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How to execute a Ruby script in Terminal?

I've set everything up that I need on my Mac (Ruby, Rails, Homebrew, Git, etc), and I've even written a …

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How do I clear/delete the current line in terminal?

If I'm using terminal and typing in a line of text for a command, is there a hotkey or any …

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Failed to build gem native extension (installing Compass)

When I attempt to install the latest version of compass (https://rubygems.org/gems/compass/versions/1.0.0.alpha.17), I get the …

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adb command not found

I need to run an adb forward command before I could use the ezkeyboard application which allows user to type …

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Is there a better Windows Console Window?

I find working on the command line in Windows frustrating, primarily because the console window is wretched to use compared …

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Run script on mac prompt "Permission denied"

I'm new to mac with not familiar on terminal command, i put the dvtcolorconvert.rb file on root directory of …

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Using scp to copy a file to Amazon EC2 instance?

I am trying to use my Mac Terminal to scp a file from Downloads (phpMyAdmin I downloaded online) to my …

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Comparing two files in linux terminal

There are two files called "a.txt" and "b.txt" both have a list of words. Now I want to …

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Python Script execute commands in Terminal

I read this somewhere a while ago but cant seem to find it. I am trying to find a command …

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