I am using Mac OS X 10.5.8. I installed Postgresql 9.1 using macports, which has installed it in /opt/local/lib/postgresql91 and created a bin folder with psql and other unix executable files. As ...

I had a .profile file that I was reading and using aliases from in my terminal, but at some point the aliases stopped working for no clear reason (other commands were still working). Thinking to m...

I can't believe there isn't any tutorials about this after googling. Can someone point me a direction or explain what these lines and variables mean in .profile on mac? How can someone configure th...

I'm having trouble getting the Ruby Version Manager rvm to source from my Ubuntu 10.04 .profile. The code: [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ...never does wh...

Using vi, I want to display files in distinguished colors in unix. If I save a file as .sql or .java it will highlight the keywords. I want to make changes to which words are highlighted, and in wh...

I'm trying to write a bash alias/function that takes an ftp path and runs lftp to pget the file. Given a remote path, with spaces encoded as %20 like: sftp://ftp.example.com/Some%20Folder/BigFile...

In Mac OS Terminal, I'm learning the basics of Unix. I'm having trouble with a hopeful easy fix, but cannot figure out where to start looking. cd __________ && ls That is a pretty common...