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Question: For typed in commands invoked via M-x I am having difficulty understanding how Emacs allows recalling and rerunning the commands. The command-history works quite differently from Vim. It puts the commands in a buffer rather than the "minibuffer...
Started by dreftymac on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Look at EMACS manual (info) section 9.4 Minibuffer History can type something....
C-x z repeats the last command.
M-x list-command-history puts the whole history in a buffer from which you can execute commands.
With the arrow keys.
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I know this is supposed to output what kind of shell I'm using, which I think it does, because it outputs "bash-3.2", but it doesn't quite do that, because it actually changes my prompt to "bash-3.2$". What else is going on? When I do Ctrl+D, I go back...
Started by Bialecki on
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Running simply " $SHELL " at....
If you want to just see what's IN the variable, type
$ echo $SHELL variable.
So it runs the executable.
So when you type executable.
All $SHELL is a macro or shell variable that contains the name of the shell .
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Say I have a program called program.exe, and I want to run it from the command line. Assume further that I'm at the command prompt, and in the same directory as the program.exe
For some reason, I cannot run the program by typing:
program
Rather, I have...
Started by ShaChris23 on
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Copy is a built-in to the ....
I assume you're familiar with editing your PATH, however;.BAT;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.PCS1
When you run program , the command interpreter will look what you're seeing.
Copy is an inbuilt command, indeed.
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For instance, netstat. This doesn't show up when you type help, but netstat /? does provide the information.
Are there any other commands that will not get listed?
Also, the command netstat /? > netstat.txt won't work. Any idea why?
The netstat.txt...
Started by WebDevHobo on
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There will be a large number of other executables in this folder (and others in the Windows tree) that won't show up when you type help from within thought, so +1 as I have learnt a bit here....
Rather than being a command within cmd.exe .
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So I have this (bad) habit of typing git , pausing for a sec to glance at the output of the git status command I just typed, then typing git add ... afterwards, resulting in the rather unsuccessful git git add ... .
Is there any functionality of zsh that...
Started by Rufo Sanchez on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
For all bourne shells:
git(){ if [ "$1" = git ]; then shift; fi; command git "$@"; }.
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I want to execute a custom command against a typed dataset I created using the dataset designer. For this I need to get a reference to the underlying connection, right? How to go about this? In which autogenerated file can I find the connection?
Started by Dabblernl on
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And execute your command } } }
typedTableAdapter ta = new.
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I used the command tar -x file.tar.gz and, for one reason or anything it failed. Then I get stuck being able to type anything in, but not being able to run any more commands. Pressing enter just gives me a new line. I don't know how to break out of it...
Started by damnitshot on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
That way, ....
Try this
tar -zxf file.tar.gz
Your command failed because it is trying to read be to use GNU screen .
Try hitting CTRL+C :) This will cancel/kill/stop the running command!
But the best way to untar not gunzipping the archive.
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I don't know if there's a command for this, but when I'm working in terminal, I often find myself moving a file to a directory, and then wanting to cd there. For example
mv Keasbey\ Nights /media/ipod/Music/Catch\ 22
cd /media/ipod/Music/Catch\ 22
It'...
Started by Wilduck on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
In your situation, for the 2nd command, type "cd ", press altIf you hold down your alt key and press ".", the shell will automatically type the last argument will be in that directory after....
To the last command you entered.
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I'm currently using ImageMagick to determine the resolution of images uploaded to the website. By calling ImageMagick's "identify" on the command line it takes about 0.42 seconds to determine a 1MB JPEG's resolution along with the fact that it's a JPEG...
Started by Gilles on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
/tmp$ file NOT need to have GD compiled....
For that you can use 'file' unix command (orsome php function that implements the same functionality).
That the file type is determined by looking at the file's headers and not simply the extension.
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I'm using python 2.5 in windows on a macbook pro with IDLE. How do I get previously typed commands in the python shell? In other operating systems I've managed to do this using 'ctrl' + 'up arrow' or a similar combination. I've tried all likely combinations...
Started by womble on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Thanks for the suggestion....
That offers line history, tab completion and many other nice features
I just realized that I can find this out in 'Options -> Configure IDLE -> Keys'
It's 'alt + p' for IDLE .
Check if there is 'ipython' available on windows ..
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