macOS (previously "Mac OS X" and "OS X") is the Unix developed and distributed by Apple Inc. since 2001.
Questions tagged [macos]
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How do I install htop in mac OS X?
How do I install htop for macOS (OS X)? (The easiest and laziest path)
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How can I set the default editor as nano on my Mac?
I have vim as default editor on my Mac and every time I run commands on Mac terminal, it automatically opens "vim".
How can I set up "nano" instead and make sure the terminal will open "nano" every time is needed?
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ssh connection "client_loop: send disconnect: Broken pipe" or "Connection reset by port 22"
I have been using ssh to access remote servers for many months, but recently I haven't been able to establish a reliable connection. Sometimes I cannot login and get the message "Connection reset by port 22", when I can login I get the error…
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Why does awk -F work for most letters, but not for the letter "t"?
July 2022 mac os Monterey V12.1
awk --version 20200816
GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin21)
Why does awk -F work for most letters, but NOT for the letter t?
I have the solution, but I would like to understand why…
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Why do I lose my ZSH history?
Every once in a while I discover my zsh history has been truncated (or maybe lost entirely, difficult to tell), and I have to restore it from backup.
For example, today:
ls -lh ~/.zsh_history
-rw------- 1 stripe staff 32K 21 Feb 10:20…
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How to install docker-engine in macOS without docker desktop?
Recently Docker announced that Docker Desktop would cease to be free for some kinds of users. See announcement in blog post.
I don't need any of the features that are exclusive to Docker Desktop®. I have used docker in a laptop with debian on it and…
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GZip doesn't produce the same compressed result on macOS vs Linux
I have a few thousand files that are individually GZip compressed (passing of course the -n flag so the output is deterministic). They then go into a Git repository. I just discovered that for 3 of these files, Gzip doesn't produce the same output…
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How to move directory into a directory with the same name?
I have a directory foo with several files:
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└── foo
├── a.txt
└── b.txt
and I want to move it into a directory with the same name:
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└── foo
└── foo
├── a.txt
└── b.txt
I'm currently creating a temporary directory bar,…
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How can I print well formatted code (hardcopy printout)
Similar to using markdown on Stack Overflow to create monospace output, how can I do that for my programs.
I tried lp filename.txt and was pleasantly please to find that it was able to use the local network printer and print 'as is'
The problem is…
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What is this weird directory in my PATH on my Mac, (running latest macOS Ventura)?
I found that my PATH on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS Ventura 13.0.1 has a strange directory inside all of the normal ones, i.e. /opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:XXX:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin is inserted into my…
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Does Windows recognize Linux's symbolic links?
I was just wondering how a Windows system handles symbolic links (when created via Linux's ln -s on a filesystem that Windows natively supports and that supports symbolic links, such as NTFS). My best guess is that it will not recognize them, but…
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How to fix "VirtualBox VM quit unexpectedly" when running my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS VM on MacOS Catalina 10.15 in VirtualBox?
I am running VirtualBox 6.1 on Catalina 10.15.6 and when I start my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS VM it says "VirtualBox VM quit unexpectedly". How can I fix this?
The Apple report is below
Path: …
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Why did {} start appearing as äå in Terminal.app?
I'm running CentOS 7.9 and today my terminal is showing weird characters. Some letters look fine, but some symbols appear as some non-English characters. For example I made a text file with the following contents:
!@#$%^&*()_+{}
When I open this…
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The 01:00 in 1 January 1970 at 01:00
I will not ask why a timestamp is 1 January 1970 at 00:00 but in several cases in my computer they are 1 January 1970 at 01:00, how did the 01:00 coincidentally get set with a number of apps?
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Why does 'ls' only display contents when I'm in a certain directory?
I am facing a very confusing behaviour of ls that I cannot search for. It displays that there are contents in a directory, but only when I'm in the directory where these were created from.
Let me show you:
ciprian Documents $…
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