Since I have problems with my Internet connection I'm not able to always run command apt-get install xdotool in Terminal, so I would like to download the **xdotool** package manually from website in .zip or .deb format and then install it manually every time I need it. (I'm using Usb Live Kali Linux 2016.2-amd64 and every time I reboot it deletes all files). I've tried to download xdotool from https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool at the right side in green box "Clone or download" there is option download ZIP. After that I extract all files in Home folder and then open it in Terminal. in README file there are instructions like this: > See the website for more up-to-date documentation > http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ or the manpage listed > below. > > Compile: make > Install: make install > Remove: make uninstall > > You may have to set 'PREFIX' to the location you want to install to. > The default PREFIX is /usr/local > > For packagers, there's also support for DESTDIR for staged install. I type in make then make install and it always outputs me this error: root@kali:~/xdotool-master# make cc -pipe -O2 -pedantic -Wall -W -Wundef -Wendif-labels -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wdisabled-optimization -Wno-missing-field-initializers -g -std=c99 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -c xdo.c xdo.c:29:34: fatal error: X11/extensions/XTest.h: No such file or directory #include ^ compilation terminated. Makefile:124: recipe for target 'xdo.o' failed make: *** [xdo.o] Error 1 root@kali:~/xdotool-master# make install install -d /usr/local cc -pipe -O2 -pedantic -Wall -W -Wundef -Wendif-labels -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wdisabled-optimization -Wno-missing-field-initializers -g -std=c99 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include -fPIC -c xdo.c xdo.c:29:34: fatal error: X11/extensions/XTest.h: No such file or directory #include ^ compilation terminated. Makefile:124: recipe for target 'xdo.o' failed make: *** [xdo.o] Error 1 root@kali:~/xdotool-master# What I'm doing wrong? Can you suggest me other methods of installation of xdotool (but without Internet connection)?

I have a USB stick that contains the folders "theme" and "icons". I want to copy those two folders to the /home/andrew/.config folder of my computer or any other computer. How can I do that using the terminal? I am on a Linux Mint Xfce system.

The goal is to get modbus ascii working with a Wallbox from ABL. So I placed a RS485 to TCP converter in the box, created a pseudo tty for my application and got the wrong frame. The answer starts with > and should start with :. So my approach is the following:

Terminal1: sudo socat -d -d -d pty,link=/dev/ttyVA00,echo=0,perm=0777 pty,link=/dev/ttyVB00,echo=0,perm=0777

Terminal2: sudo socat -d -d -d pty,link=/dev/ttyV0,perm=0777 tcp:10.10.49.249:502

Terminal3: cat /dev/ttyVB00 > /dev/ttyV0

Terminal4: cat /:/g' > /dev/ttyVB00
           
Terminal5: ./modpoll -m ascii /dev/ttyVA00 -b 38400 -d 8 -p even -t4 -c 2 -0

And this works! Could you give advice on how to simplify the socat solution and how to get it to autostart?

I searched the internet and could not find anybody asking this question. I was annoyed of moving right and the autocomplete autosuggest-accept being the same keybind. My closes guesses were

bindkey -v '' autosuggest-accept

and

bindkey '\xffe4' autosuggest-accept

but they did not work. How should I go at finding how to do this?

Ctrl+S stops all output to the terminal which can be restarted with Ctrl+Q. But, why does Ctrl+S exist in the first place? What problem was trying to be solved by putting that control sequence in place?

How can I change my Kali Linux terminal preference settings back to the default? Because the symbols are not in the right place, I think. As you can see, the symbols overlap with each other.

I am using the bash shell with the XFCE4 terminal. I have configured the shell so that it is in Vi mode. I have done this by adding the following line in my ~/.bashrc file: set -o vi When in a shell in Normal Mode, the first character I press gets inputed in Normal Mode but then I get thrown in Insert Mode. ie: I am in Normal Mode. If I press b, I will go back one word and get dropped in Insert Mode. If I press bb, I will have got back one word, enter Insert Mode and then insert the b character. Another example, if I press dd, the first d will be caught by Normal Mode, I will then go to Insert Mode where the second d will be inserted. If I manually enter set -o vi in the shell (whether it is in my .bashrc or not) I will not get this behaviour and instead get the normal behaviour. I know the change in my .bashrc is getting read as I am not in Emacs mode. I am using bash 4.2.45(1)-release. Here is the full content of my .bashrc: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting PATH=$PATH:/home/bleakcabal/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin set -o vi

So, my Scroll Lock key doesn't have much use, while I keep hitting Ctrl+S with no intention of stopping control flow. I know how to disable Ctrl+S from locking scroll (stty -ixon), but can I use Scroll Lock key instead for the same use? **- UPDATE -** In my terminal Scroll Lock does not stop control flow. My question is how to assign that function to that key.

So I use ctrl + a (bound to a instead of b), and I try to ctrl + a and release then type in SHIFT + ' which is " so ctrl + a + " like the horizontal split should in theory work. When I do that I get a weird menu (I'm not sure what this menu is, why it pops up, I'm trying to figure out how to correctly get the horizontal split to work)

I can use the "script" command to record an interactive session at the command line. However, this includes all control characters *and* colour codes. I can remove control characters (like backspace) with "col -b", but I can't find a simple way to remove the colour codes. Note that I want to use the command line in the normal way, so don't want to disable colours there - I just want to remove them from the script output. Also, I know can play around and try find a regexp to fix things up, but I am hoping there is a simpler (and more reliable - what if there's a code I don't know about when I develop the regexp?) solution. To show the problem:

spl62 tmp: script
Script started, file is typescript
spl62 lepl: ls
add-licence.sed  build-example.sh  commit-test         push-docs.sh
add-licence.sh   build.sh          delete-licence.sed  setup.py
asn              build-test.sh     delete-licence.sh   src
build-doc.sh     clean             doc-src             test.ini
spl62 lepl: exit
Script done, file is typescript
spl62 tmp: cat -v typescript
Script started on Thu 09 Jun 2011 09:47:27 AM CLT
spl62 lepl: ls^M
^[[0m^[[00madd-licence.sed^[[0m  ^[[00;32mbuild-example.sh^[[0m  ^[[00mcommit-test^[[0m         ^[[00;32mpush-docs.sh^[[0m^M
^[[00;32madd-licence.sh^[[0m   ^[[00;32mbuild.sh^[[0m          ^[[00mdelete-licence.sed^[[0m  ^[[00msetup.py^[[0m^M
^[[01;34masn^[[0m              ^[[00;32mbuild-test.sh^[[0m     ^[[00;32mdelete-licence.sh^[[0m   ^[[01;34msrc^[[0m^M
^[[00;32mbuild-doc.sh^[[0m     ^[[00;32mclean^[[0m             ^[[01;34mdoc-src^[[0m             ^[[00mtest.ini^[[0m^M
spl62 lepl: exit^M

Script done on Thu 09 Jun 2011 09:47:29 AM CLT
spl62 tmp: col -b 
                                

### Context To restore the standard input, standard output and/or standard error (file descriptors 0, 1 and/or 2 respectively) of a process to the keyboard and/or display of an interactive shell (bash) session, I have seen here that one can execute either of the following: $ exec &>/dev/tty or $ exec &>$(tty) Whereas $(tty) (a command substitution) returns /dev/pts/X where X is the number associated to the currently active terminal window (pseudo-tty), thereby explicitly pointing the redirection to the "real" filename associated with the terminal in which the command is entered, in contrast /dev/tty is a character file which *seems* to appear identical to different processes (i.e. to different concurrent terminal windows). In man 4 tty it says: > The file /dev/tty [...] is a synonym for the controlling terminal of a process... In The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 8, Chapter 10 it says: > **/dev/tty** > > In each process, a synonym for the controlling terminal associated with the process group of that process, if any. It is useful for programs or shell procedures that wish to be sure of writing messages to or reading data from the terminal no matter how output has been redirected. It can also be used for applications that demand the name of a file for output, when typed output is desired and it is tiresome to find out what terminal is currently in use. ### Question Since /dev/tty is a file and not a symbolic link like /dev/fd or /proc/self, how can it "point" to different terminal processes when interpreted in different terminal windows? What does it mean in Unix/Linux parlance to be "a synonym" when not a symbolic link or a hard link — I mean: what is interpreting such a "synonym" when invoked on a command line and how?

I have a mac M4 chip and running my ubuntu and centos stream 10 on UTM and when it try to connect the shared folder from my mac i keep getting this issue as "wrong fs type" After so many reboot this worked but when i try to open the folder in ubuntu file system it throws me an error stating that this location could not be displayed "mnt": Error when getting information for file "/mnt/kku": Numerical result out of range

When I use vim-slime , every time I open a vimterminal I have to reconfigure it.

:let g:slime_target="vimterminal"

Followed by:

SlimeConfig

And then I choose the terminal I just opened as the target for the buffer I am in via a read statement from the plugin. This is becoming tiresome; I seem to be able to set the slime_target as vimterminal using my .vimrc, but it is still unclear to me how to call the SlimeConfig command and pass it an argument on the latest newly opened terminal upon opening the vimterminal. I've found the following thread that seems to address this, but it appears that it's fired every time one switches windows.

My prompt contains some info about git repo under current directory. When I do cd somewhere, my shell executes some commands (i.e. git status). Is there a way to stop execution of such commands via the same terminal? Sending signals from keyboard (e.g. via Ctrl+c) doesn't work. ### Update #1 I don't want to disable those commands permanently - I just want them to start running and then stop them in runtime.

In a shell script, how can I test programmatically whether or not the terminal supports 24-bit or true color? ---- Related: [This question](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/404414/print-truecolor-24-bit-test-pattern) is about printing a 24-bit / truecolor test pattern for eyeball verification

I have noticed that when providing input to read, both Bash's and Dash's, the cursor does not move to the next line if the current line contains 1 character more than there are columns. In MATE Terminal, GNOME Terminal and LXTerminal, the cursor disappears. In xterm and the virtual console the cursor stays in the last column. If the current line contains 2 character more than there are columns, then in all the aforementioned terminals and the console, the cursor appears on the next input line, in the second column, after the excessive character. This behavior can be seen in Bash with

read -p "$( x="$( tput 'cols' )" ; for (( y = 0 ; y < x ; ++y )) ; do echo -n 'x' ; done )"

I don't know if the command works in Dash. This command prints the prompt in read long enough to fill the first line for input with the character "x" until the last column, included (read waits for further input, so you need to control-d to return to the shell). Notice that the cursor has disappeared from the terminal (or console). On the other hand, we see that making the prompt in read 1 character longer causes the cursor to appear on the next line. It can be seen with just changing the 0 in the previous command to -1, like

read -p "$( x="$( tput 'cols' )" ; for (( y = -1 ; y < x ; ++y )) ; do echo -n 'x' ; done )"

Now we print 1 character more that there are columns, the line wraps, and the cursor is shown. The behavior that I would expect is that the cursor moves to the next line if the current line contains 1 character more than there are columns (i.e. the cursor never disappears or stays in the last column). **So, why does the cursor not move? Is it expected behavior? What program or library causes it?**

On Wikipedia [it is explained](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code) that "Device Status Report" is an ANSI control sequence that "[r]eports the cursor position (CPR) by transmitting ESC[n;mR, where n is the row and m is the column". So, in MATE Terminal, in Bash, if I do

echo -ne '\e[6n'

then I get ;1R. It looks like a part of the response that Wikipedia describes. If I then add read like

echo -ne '\e[6n' ; read

then I get ^[[2;1R. I have it where I would expect to provide input. I conclude that this is the proper output of Device Status Report, and that it is being sent to the standard input. **What are the reasons that it is sent to the standard input and not output?** I find this behavior unintuitive. If I would like to know the position of the cursor, ideally I'd have it on the standard output. Like, I could then assign it to a variable easily. Does it play a role that the control sequence is called "Device Status Report" and not "Cursor Position Report"? I see there are multiple questions here regarding Device Status Report, but I cannot find any that would answer this question. If there is, I'd appreciate a link.

As far as I know pho stands for phone I think,- When I run phosh I getting following error :~$ phosh (phoc:9139): phoc-wlroots-CRITICAL **: 16:28:35.127: [libseat] [libseat/backend/logind.c:131] Could not take device: Device or resource busy (phoc:9139): phoc-wlroots-CRITICAL **: 16:28:35.127: [backend/session/session.c:322] Failed to open device: '/dev/dri/card0': Resource temporarily unavailable (phoc:9139): phoc-wlroots-CRITICAL **: 16:28:35.127: [backend/backend.c:217] Found 0 GPUs, cannot create backend (phoc:9139): phoc-wlroots-CRITICAL **: 16:28:35.127: [backend/backend.c:311] failed to add backend 'drm' (phoc:9139): phoc-server-CRITICAL **: 16:28:35.151: Failed to create server: Could not create backend and phoc opens up blank empty black screen or it opens up the few of the apps whatever I try to open after, for example eclipse ide while I close phoc window, I get the following terminal output phoc-output-Message: 16:32:20.323: Output 'X11-1' added ('The X.Org Foundation'/'11.0'/''), 0mm x 0mm I would like know what is use of this phoc and phosh

How do hooks work? Is it possible to use them to change the saved copy of the letter on the mail server (for example, to delete attachments)? For example, to use account-hook and replace the sent letter with a copy? I am using mutt from terminal.

### Problem Very often when I work with git I need to copy some content from the output of the last command. And I hate switching from keyboard to trackpad/mouse. **Case #1**

...
➜  extract_ttc git:(feature/simplify-gha-workflows) git push
fatal: The current branch feature/simplify-gha-workflows has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

    git push --set-upstream origin feature/simplify-gha-workflows

I need to copy git push --set-upstream origin feature/simplify-gha-workflows manually to execute, so I switching to mouse/trackpad from keyboard **Case #2**

...
➜  extract_ttc git:(feature/simplify-gha-workflows) git push --set-upstream origin feature/simplify-gha-workflows
Enumerating objects: 9, done.
Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Delta compression using up to 16 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 1.16 KiB | 1.16 MiB/s, done.
Total 6 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
remote:
remote: Create a pull request for 'feature/simplify-gha-workflows' on GitHub by visiting:
remote:      https://github.com/fontist/extract_ttc/pull/new/feature/simplify-gha-workflows 
remote:
To github.com:fontist/extract_ttc.git
 * [new branch]      feature/simplify-gha-workflows -> feature/simplify-gha-workflows
Branch 'feature/simplify-gha-workflows' set up to track remote branch 'feature/simplify-gha-workflows' from 'origin'.

I need to copy https://github.com/fontist/extract_ttc/pull/new/feature/simplify-gha-workflows again to execute open ### Questions - Is there a way to navigate the terminal output of the past commands (without mouse/trackpad)? - Is there some approach that doesn't depend on the terminal app (for example I use iTerm on OSX)? - If there is no solution in the way how I imagined it: what are possible approaches to achieve the same with keyboard only?