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Help with Terminal and Quicktime

post #1 of 11
3/23/06 at 4:21pm
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Recently I have gained an interest in CLI interfaces and wanted to learn something about them with Terminal.app, but everytime I launch Terminal it launches Quicktime and then exits. This also happens when I launch a new shell of Terminal. How can I fix this? I have been using X11 to learn about the CLI, but I would like this problem to be resolved. Any help is much appreciated.
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post #2 of 11
3/23/06 at 4:33pm
  • Kickaha
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Well that ain't right.

Have you by any chance accidentally set files of extension .sh to open in QuickTime? Do a Get Info on one and see what it says to have open it.
My brain is hung like a HORSE!
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post #3 of 11
3/25/06 at 3:20am
Type open -a textedit ~/.profile in terminal and see what text is in there. That's if you use the default bash shell. If you use tcsh, it's in ~/.cshrc or something.
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post #4 of 11
3/25/06 at 4:58am
Also, check under Terminal's Preferences menu to make sure that QT Player didn't get put in there as a default command.
--Johnny
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post #5 of 11
3/25/06 at 7:51am
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Kickaha: I did what you suggested and the defaul app is textedit, so thats cool.
Marvin: When I try to open that file terminal says:
2006-03-25 09:47:12.368 open[280] No such file: ~/.profile
[Process exited - exit code 1]
and I'm pretty sure I'm using bash, because the other file name does not work.
Lundy: I checked and it's not there as a default command.


A friend of min suggested that I delete Quicktime's receipts, but I don't know where to find them.
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post #6 of 11
3/25/06 at 8:00am
What does this give?

open -a textedit /etc/profile
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post #7 of 11
3/25/06 at 8:06am
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OK I did that, now what does it all mean?:
# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
export PATH

if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
\t[ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi
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post #8 of 11
3/25/06 at 8:19am
Well, in any case, that's not related to QuickTime either.

What's in /etc/bashrc ? Or in .bashrc?
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post #9 of 11
3/25/06 at 10:29am
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Nothing that seems quicktime related
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post #10 of 11
3/25/06 at 11:42am
Next step: Delete Terminal's preference file.

/Users/youracct/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist

Drag it to the Trash.

Restart Terminal.
--Johnny
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post #11 of 11
3/25/06 at 3:54pm
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Did it, it worked. Thank you so much for your help, it is much appreciated.
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