Ok, so lets say I spawned a new terminal in vim using :terminal and I want to immediately have a shell enviroment with different/additional enviroment variables within that new terminal window without typing for example VAR=”something”. How do i do that? Answer You can set an environment variable in vim and then open a terminal, which will inherit all environment
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How can I resolve these errors when I open a file with vim?
So when I open a file (i.e., vi examples.R) on my Ubuntu 20.04 laptop, I get the following string of errors: My ~/.vimrc file is: I don’t even know where to begin when diagnosing this issue. Do any of you have any thoughts? Thank you! Answer It looks like you broke your .vimrc, and that your vi is just an
Add more new lines to end of line in stdout
I want to be able to print out my logs with extra new lines. This is what the logs look like They look much cluttered in the terminal and although there is a newline, I want to add 1 more newline to make it more readable. I tried using and to no avail. Answer Not entirely certain about portability, but
Failed to start ngnix.service: Unit ngnix.service not found
I have installed ngnix on ubuntu 20.04 . But when i am giving command sudo systemctl start ngnix . I am facing an error Failed to start ngnix.service: Unit ngnix.service not found. Please help me out through this problem. Answer It’s called nginx, not ngnix. So you need to start it as sudo systemctl start nginx (note the spelling).
How can I run a .desktop file which starts a script file, but hides the terminal?
I wrote a .desktop file which should start an .sh file. It works good but opens a terminal with the logs of the started application. When I close the terminal also the application gets closed. The application is the webstorm IDE. Here is my .desktop file. Is there a way to hide the terminal and only start the application? Please
How to print a string AFTER the date in Linux Terminal?
I want to type a one-line command in Linux that will print the date followed by a string to the Terminal. For example, “… is today’s date.” This is what I tried. However, this printed ” is today’s date. Sat Feb 20…” I thought reversing the order would help, but this only printed the date. Conversely, my third attempt only
different ips in different terminal with torify
how can we get a different tor circuit with torify command in a separate terminal window? Specifically, if I type a command in a terminal 1 window I receive my IP address in response. but if I try it in another terminal window simultaneously I get the same IP which is a normal behavior. what I am trying to achieve
How to keep telnet connection alive from client side
I have a device as a telnet server but drops the connection if no packet is received in 60 seconds, for some reason this behavior cannot be changed. Putty has a feature to send null packets to the server periodically to keep the session alive, which works fine for me. But some times I have to telnet to the device
Bash: While-read loop skips the last line of comma-separated text file
I am trying to read some comma-separated data from a text file, parse it and calculate average of column-5. The input is in the following form: I am using the following script for this: The problem with the script is that it does not read / parse the last line of the text. What can I do about that? Also,
Bash script does not wait for user to enter response
I am trying to read a text file (line by line) and take user response in a while loop. However, the script does not wait to take input. Instead, it just prints all the text to screen. The script only prints alternate text lines from the file (Please refer to the image below). Output Answer This worked for me: