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Questions tagged [terminal]

Use this tag if your problem relates to command line (CLI) or terminal based (TUI) applications or interfaces.

A terminal is a text based user interface that usually runs a command-line shell.

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Is there a console-only (no GUI included) distro under 1 gb?

I'm looking for an OS which: At least boots to the console by default Preferably has no GUI included at all Will fit on a 1 GB SD card Is there an OS like this available, and are there any additional steps or requirements to install it?
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How to "scroll up" and view previous console output?

I am getting started using my Raspberry Pi. Sometimes I run some command where the console output scrolls off the screen too fast for me to read. For example, installing some library/package from source, I'd like to be able to review the output.…
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Equivalent terminal command to launcher icon

How can I find the equivalent terminal command of some program I started from the GUI? For example, I open the start menu, go to accessories, and start the image viewer. Is there a way to find the equivalent terminal command for that action?
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Raspberry pi does not display unicode characters

I tried to install Mapscii on a raspberry pi, but for some reason the list of character that it is able to display seems limited. I've Jessie light installation, no GUI, but the strange thing is that i've tried to connect different display to the…
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View images without gui

What methods are available for people to use to view images on the command line? I tried the accepted answer here but i got the error bash: fbi: command not found so I'm not quite sure what the problem is. I also tried this (first duck-duck-go…
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hwmon hwmon1 : Undervoltage detected from going to current console

I have a raspberry Pi, for which I currently use the following script whilst I set some things up watch -n .5 ntpq -np > /dev/tty2 & gpsmon > /dev/tty3 & cgps > /dev/tty4 & watch 'ifconfig && ip route' > /dev/tty5 & then use Alt-F2 etc to look at…
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SCREEN: Cannot access detached instances

I'm using (Screen) in terminal to leave my twitter bot running. However I am having trouble accessing these instances again. It's simply saying "Command not found" despite it clearly saying it's detached. Anyone got any ideas what might be…
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Number Sign vs Semicolon as Comments in config files

I would like to know the difference between using a Number Sign(#) and a Semicolon(;). I know that a hash is a comment and is ignored but I don't know why a semicolon is used or what it means. I see them both used in my motion.conf file as shown…
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How do I display Japanese glyphs in console?

Is there a way to configure the console to display Japanese kanji, hiragana and katakana? I can output as UTF-8.
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Whitey, yt and Device Support

Been out of the loop for a while now, but recently got a Raspberry Pi 2! It's awesome. However, I installed Whitey and YT (so I can run youtube videos without X running). It all installed fine after some tweaking for omxplayer not mplayer. But every…
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Installing the "Inconsolata" font as the default console font - or any other font

I really detest the few fonts the console provides by default. I would like to install the Inconsolata font and use that as the default console font. I'm using Raspbian and would like the font to be used in the console when I boot up. Can anyone…
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How do you open a mp3 file from the raspberry pi terminal?

There is an .mp3 file on my desktop that I would like to open from the command terminal, how do I do this?
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lxterminal blurry fonts

I have installed Raspbian Stretch on my RPi3. Whenever I open the lxterminal the text is quite unclear/blurry, it sometimes appears as the text is almost overlapping. I tried all the fonts given in configuration, but every single font looks messed…
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Cronjob to shutdown pi gracefullt (send ^C to open screens and wait)

I have been looking for a way to reboot the rpi once a day or week gracefully. With gracefully I mean that the screens get stopped wih a Ctrl + C command (^C) and then it waits for the screen to be closed. I couldn't find this anywhere. Is this even…
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Change RPi to 32 bit architecture

While attempting to install Wine on my RPi, I changed the architecture to 32 bit. I used the command, sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386, but I don't know how to change back to 64 bit. Does anyone know the command?
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