General :: Mac Terminal - Remove Text Prefixing Dollar Sign
Mar 27, 2011how to remove the text prefixing the dollar sign in mac terminal?
For example,
Peters-MacBook-Pro:~ peter$ ls my_dir
should become
$ ls my_dir
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Ubuntu :: Shell Terminal - Dollar Sign Missing?
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For example,
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%
I find this extremely annoying as I am used to % being replaced with a path to the current directory followed by a $. Like a default Ubuntu install.
For example,
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I get the line returned: [sudo] password for abc:
If I enter my normal login pw i get the message:
abc is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
If I enter the root pw I get the message: Sorry, try again.
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Code:
ls $HOME and hit TAB, auto-complete will list the contents of $HOME to search deeper, so to say. But in F15, the terminal automatically escapes the $ sign. If you do the same as above, you get
Code:
ls $HOME
instead of
Code:
ls /home/benny/
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Mar 24, 2010[Code]....
I am trying to remove <a href links using SED but unable to do it.
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Example of a duplicate title I have:
Code:
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Code:
#! /bin/bash
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Code:
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then a few lines down
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