Zsh Auto-Return on Paste

Author: , January 17th, 2025

Have you ever found yourself frustrated when copying and pasting commands in the Apple terminal no longer behaves as expected? If you used to work with Bash on older macOS versions, you might recall that pasting a command into the terminal automatically executed it—no extra steps required. However, with the switch to Zsh as the […]

How To Login To A Docker Container Shell

Author: , February 15th, 2021

First, get the container ID using docker ps:

Now run docker exec -it {ContainerID} /bin/bash:

You can make a simple shell script to ease typing a bit:

How To Fix “IOError: [Errno 10] No child processes” When Running the aws CLI Command from Perl WWW-REST-Apid

Author: , December 3rd, 2020

Problem While running the aws cli command from a Perl async command inside apid, I go the following error:

Solution The issue turned out to be a bug in Python2.7, so I upgraded to Python3.4, then uninstalled and re-installed the aws cli software so that it used the proper Python34 version. Procedure

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2-linux.html […]

How To Properly Specify Command and Arguments to Exec in Perl

Author: , December 11th, 2019

When using Perl’s exec() call, the best way to invoke it is as follows:

This syntax does some important things: – passes a scalar value as the first argument which exec interprets as PROGRAM – passes an array as the second argument which exec will use as the arguments to pass into PROGRAM Note […]

How To Show All Files in MacOSX Yosemite via Terminal

Author: , October 29th, 2014

SET THE DEFAULT TO SHOW Run this command in a Terminal window: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Relaunch Finder: Hold down the Option/ALT key on your keyboard, then right-click the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch. SET THE DEFAULT TO HIDE defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO then relaunch finder as above.