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Questions tagged [curses]

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How to start qemu directly in the console (*not* in curses or SDL)

I seem to recall being able to start qemu with only the terminal emulator output, with the graphic window disabled. And here I don't mean with the ncurses interface, that one is nice, but I want the output to flow directly into my terminal, to make…
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top output to narrow in cron

I'm trying to send an email through cron to know what processes are hogging my server. It works fine but the resulting email is too narrow and I need to know more about the process. This is the script I'm using (stole it from here:…
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Running one-off interactive programs remotely over SSH

I've got a series of production servers that I'd like to be able to run certain utilities on without having to SSH into the machine. Unfortunately, some of those programs (top and iotop I've tried so far) require curses and/or a TERM environment…
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Scripting around Curses?

I have a process I'm that I'm constantly having to deal with. It requires I run a command and then enter several pieces of information. Then I'm presented with a curses menu listing several options. The first half is easy to automate using…
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bastille cannot find Curses.pm

i am running centos 6 and installed the rpm version of bastille, it cannot find Curses.pm, however perl-Curses is installed and somehow even perl cannot find it. [root@server ~]# /usr/sbin/bastille -c ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version!…
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Ncurses or command line alternative to ClusterSSH

Is there a good NCurses alternative to ClusterSSH?
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How Can I Capture Output From Programs That Use curses?

For example, the pv utility shows me the current rate of data transfer and updates every second. I'd like to save that output to a file, so that I can see at what rate data was being transferred second by second. I can't use a simple redirect like…
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Using expect to automate Alpine Linux installation in FreeBSD in Bhyve

I am attempting to automate installation of Alpine Linux in vm-bhyve under FreeBSD and expect dies shortly after the boot menu times out and launches the Alpine Linux installation. #!/usr/bin/env expect spawn vm install -f alpine alpine.iso #…
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Compiled ruby fails to find curses

I'm attempting to install the sup MUA but I'm having trouble. When I try to run it, it can't find curses: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require': no such file to load -- curses (LoadError) ... I am…
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