{"id":461,"date":"2011-04-26T23:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oradba.ch\/?p=461"},"modified":"2011-04-29T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T07:53:10","slug":"mac-os-x-terminal-compatibility-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oradba.ch\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/mac-os-x-terminal-compatibility-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X Terminal Compatibility Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I start using iTerm<\/a> rather than Terminal to work on the command line. In my opinion it is much more powerful to setup some window groups. Several tabs and\/or windows can be stored and managed as bookmarks. The manipulation of window and tab title seams also a bit easier. But that is not the topic of this post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

When working on the command line I also use TVDBasenv. Starting a new session always display the status of environment \/ databases.<\/p>\n

\r\nLast login: Tue Apr 26 22:17:55 on ttys014\r\n\r\nDown\/dummy   : rdbms1020 rdbms1020IC\r\n\r\nListener     : Down\r\n\r\nuser@host:~\/ [rdbms1020IC]\r\n<\/pre>\n
Unfortunately in iTerm this does not work in the same way as in Terminal.<\/p>\n
\r\nLast login: Tue Apr 26 21:52:17 on ttys010\r\nps: illegal option -- f\r\nusage: ps [-AaCcEefhjlMmrSTvwXx] [-O fmt | -o fmt] [-G gid[,gid...]]\r\n[-u]\r\n[-p pid[,pid...]] [-t tty[,tty...]] [-U user[,user...]]\r\nps [-L]\r\n\r\nDown\/dummy   : rdbms1020 rdbms1020IC\r\n\r\nListener     : Down\r\n\r\nuser@host:~\/ [rdbms1020IC]\r\n<\/pre>\n
I first thought that the two Application are using a different PATH and therefore a different ps. But all the following test have shown the same output on both environments.<\/p>\n
\r\nuser@host:~\/ [rdbms1020IC] which ps\r\n\/bin\/ps\r\n\r\nuser@host:~\/ [rdbms1020IC] type -a ps\r\nps is \/bin\/ps\r\n<\/pre>\n
The comparison of the environment variables finally showed a few differences.<\/p>\n
\r\ndiff iterm.txt terminal.txt\r\n...\r\n< COLORFGBG=0;15\r\n< COMMAND_MODE=legacy\r\n---\r\n> COMMAND_MODE=unix2003\r\n< TERM_PROGRAM=iTerm.app\r\n---\r\n> TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal\r\n> TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=273.1\r\n...\r\n<\/pre>\n
It seams that COMMAND_MODE does the trick. In iTerm it is set to legacy<\/code>\u00a0while Terminal is using unix2003<\/em>. So setting COMMAND_MODE to legacy<\/em> cause utility programs like ps<\/em> to behave as closely to Mac OS X 10.3’s utility programs, while setting it to unix2003<\/em> causes utility programs to obey the Version 3 of the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3).<\/p>\n
To fix my issue I simply have to add COMMAND_MODE=unix2003<\/code> to my .bash_profile<\/code>.<\/p>\n
More information on manipulating the compatibility settings can be found in
\nman 5 compat<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When switching from Mac OS Terminal.app to iTerm I realized that the <\/p>\n
ps<\/pre>\n
 does not work as expected. A <\/p>\n
ps -ef<\/pre>\n
 throws an error even if <\/p>\n
man ps<\/pre>\n
 shows an option for -f. It seems that the compatibility can be set with a environment variable COMMAND_MODE<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os-x","category-terminal","tag-trivadiscontent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aErb-7r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2232,"url":"https:\/\/www.oradba.ch\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/using-touchid-for-sudo-on-macos-sierra\/","url_meta":{"origin":461,"position":0},"title":"Using TouchID for sudo on macOS Sierra","author":"Stefan","date":"10. 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