terminal (some blowing news)
folks,
just in case nobody knows about this mighty feature. I found out today, that if you open a shell and you press ESC at least for 3 seconds, the following occurs: Display all 867 possibilities? (y or n) . hit "y" and there you bloody go
if you know already, than please skip this message and forgive me. my humble heart would be very well suited
have a nice day
just in case nobody knows about this mighty feature. I found out today, that if you open a shell and you press ESC at least for 3 seconds, the following occurs: Display all 867 possibilities? (y or n) . hit "y" and there you bloody go
if you know already, than please skip this message and forgive me. my humble heart would be very well suited
have a nice day
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Originally posted by torifile
Hmm, mine says "Display all 1185 possibilities?" What's wrong with your computer. Tab a couple times at the prompt and you'll get the same thing.
Different 10.3.x OS versions, IIRC.
Originally posted by sawtooth
Sorry to shift topic but how do you send a message to another user on your network using the terminal. On our PC network I can use the "net send" command in DOS (eek) to have a message pop up on a users screen. Is there a unix equivalent?
You really should post a new thread. That said, you can always use rendezvous messaging through iChat. If the other user isn't using OS X, I don't know how you would do it. I'm sure it's possible, but I've never needed to try.
On older VMS machines you used to be able to copy a file to another VT on the same machine (handy when 500+users are on a single machine/cluster), it would just appear on screen and the recipient could do nothing. Ken your technical skills were inversely proportional to your marketing!
Dobby
write user@host
In the terminal look at "man talk" (there's a joke there, somewhere) and "man write"
sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to activate' -e 'tell app "Finder"
to display dialog "Hello"'
you can even send a message to win boxes:
echo "hello" | smbclient -M NETBIOSNAME
(you'll need to know their netbios name)
Originally posted by foad
The NETSEND command for windows is a new form of Spam. I recently formatted a friends HP laptop, and a few minutes after the first boot, he already got a spam notice like that. I know that was a little off-topic, but thought it might be worth a mention. On all the Windows boxes I deal with, one of the first things I do is disable windows messaging service.
Oh you think it's disabled! Just wait a month or so, maybe it's when you update or something, but mine normally came back on after a while for no apparent reason. Windows messenger would always popup and you don't really close it because "it's in use".
Originally posted by ast3r3x
Oh you think it's disabled! Just wait a month or so, maybe it's when you update or something, but mine normally came back on after a while for no apparent reason. Windows messenger would always popup and you don't really close it because "it's in use".
Yeah I know about that stupid ass thing that MS does. I actually write down instructions for my friends on how to disable it, so after they do an update, they can disable it again.
What a aggravating concept.
Originally posted by torifile
Hmm, mine says "Display all 1185 possibilities?" What's wrong with your computer.
What Brad said. It is a bash feature and it displays you all the binaries it finds in the environment paths.