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Disable "These files might be harmful to your computer" warning?
I keep getting this irritating warning when copying files over the network: These files might be harmful to your computer Your internet security settings suggest that one or more files may be harmful. Do you want to use it anyway? I am copying a file from (home server) to my local machine which is at . How do I turn off this meaningless "warning"?
VirtualBox guest OS accessing local server on host OS
On my Ubuntu host I have my local webserver. I installed VirtualBox and Debian as a guest. I would like the Debian guest to be able to hit my webserver running on my Ubuntu host (for example, I just type in the browser under Debian). How can this be done?
How to start vim without executing /etc/vimrc?
On my Linux server at work, the admins did not install cscope, and I installed it from source in my home directory and added it to the $PATH. The trouble is, the /etc/vimrc has a reference to /usr/bin/cscope which does not exist and everytime I start vim, it complains about that and I have to press for that message to go away. It is interesting that if I remove cscope from my $PATH, I don't get that behavior - so it is possible that vim is testing that cscope exists somewhere, and only then executing the cscope configuration - but then it gets it wrong! So my question is: can I set something up in my .vimrc so it does not source the global /etc/vimrc? I don't want to move cscope out of PATH, as I don't want to type the full directory name every time I run it from the command line.
What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
I'm confused with the terminology. What is the difference between shell, console, and terminal?
How do I make a POST request using curl?
How do I make a POST request using cURL's command-line tool?
Using watch with pipes
I'd like to run this command: But it does not run, because "I think" that the grep tries to run on the watch instead of the tail... Is there a way to do something like Thanks a lot!
Don't add hostkey to known_hosts for SSH
I want to connect to a host via SSH but I don't want the hostname to be added to my . How can I do that?
On Linux/Unix, does .tar.gz versus .zip matter?
Cross-platform programs are sometimes distributed as .tar.gz for the Unix version and .zip for the Windows version. This makes sense when the contents of each must be different. If, however, the contents are going to be the same, it would be simpler to just have one download. Windows prefers .zip because that's the format it can handle out of the box. Does it matter on Unix? That is, I tried today unzipping a file on Ubuntu Linux, and it worked fine; is there any problem with this on any current Unix-like operating system, or is it okay to just provide a .zip file across the board?
How can I sort the output of 'ls' by last modified date?
How can I sort the output of by last modified date?
"Show desktop" keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X
I am using a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5. Is there a similar function to "show desktop" (shortcut is WIN+D) on a Mac? It should hide all applications and show a clean desktop.
Keyboard shortcut to jump between tabs on OS X Terminal
In OS X Terminal.app, if you open new windows, you can easily switch between them with Cmd-1, Cmd-2, Cmd-3, etc. You can also cycle between tabs, using Cmd-Shift-{ and Cmd-Shift-}. (or Cmd-Shift-Left and Cmd-Shift-Right) But is there a way to jump straight to a particular tab, like you can with windows? e.g. Cmd-Shift-3 to jump to the third tab? (That's not it, of course.) I'm pretty sure it's impossible out of the box, but what if I'm willing to write some AppleScript to make this work?
Using cd command in Windows command line, can't navigate to D:\
This may be a silly question, and I think I have looked elsewhere to find the answer... Might be a path issue, but when I open the command line and type from the : I cannot get to the D drive. Even if I type: The will auto-complete the line with the tab key, so it knows where I'm at. It just doesn't print to screen the result or actually get me there. This problem exists for the network drives as well. Now, if I use the ( ) command like this: or I get the print out of the below the command but it still says I'm in the . I feel like I'm missing something simple.
Way to limit bandwidth of programs on Windows?
Is there a technique in Windows that can selectively limit bandwidth of a running process?
How do I gunzip to a different destination directory?
How do I gunzip to a destination directory other than the current one? This did not work:
How do I type Home/End/PageUp/PageDown on a MacBook Pro?
What combination of keys (fn, control, option, command, arrow keys) is the equivalent of the Home key on a MacBook Pro? What about End/PageUp/PageDown?
How to copy text from Console2?
I just started using Console2 as an alternative to cmd.exe I can't figure out how to copy text from the console to the clipboard -- dragging over it with the mouse won't mark anything, and there is no option in the right-click menu to "mark" as in cmd.exe It must be terribly obvious but I guess I'm overlooking it... :(
See available drives from Windows CLI?
Is there a way to list the available drives from cmd.exe ? (Other than manually typying and seeing which ones return errors)
Command-line application for converting SVG to PNG on Mac OS X
Are there any command-line programs that can convert an SVG to PNG that run on macOS?
How to append to a file as sudo?
I want to do: But, since only the root user has write permission to this file, I can't do that. But the following also doesn't work. Is there a way to append to a file in that situation without having to first open it with a 'd editor and then appending the new content by hand?
scp to remote server with sudo
I have a file on server A (which is behind a NAT so not directly addressable). The file needs to be copied to server B in a directory restricted to root. I have an account on server B with sudo privileges. What is the syntax for the scp command?