Linux on Nelson Figueroa https://nelson.cloud/categories/linux/ Recent content in Linux on Nelson Figueroa Nelson Figueroa https://nelson.cloud/opengraph-images/default.png https://nelson.cloud/opengraph-images/default.png en Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:22:37 -0800 Quick Tip: Mute the Terminal Login Message with A .hushlogin File https://nelson.cloud/quick-tip-mute-the-terminal-login-message-with-a-.hushlogin-file/?ref=rss Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://nelson.cloud/quick-tip-mute-the-terminal-login-message-with-a-.hushlogin-file/?ref=rss Create a .hushlogin file in your home directory to silence login messages.Today I learned that you can create an empty .hushlogin file in your home directory on macOS and Linux to hide the login message you get when starting up a new terminal window or tab.

I tried this on macOS but it should work on Linux too.

For example, when I start up a new terminal window/tab I see the following message:

terminal with login message

After I create the .hushlogin file in my home directory, the login message goes away. First I created the file:

touch ~/.hushlogin

Then I opened a new terminal window to verify that the message no longer shows up:

terminal without login message after creating .hushlogin file

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]]> Delete All node_modules Directories Recursively in macOS and Linux https://nelson.cloud/delete-all-node_modules-directories-recursively-in-macos-and-linux/?ref=rss Sun, 14 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://nelson.cloud/delete-all-node_modules-directories-recursively-in-macos-and-linux/?ref=rss How to delete all node_modules directories recursively in macOS and Linux systems.We can use the find command to delete a specific directory recursively. This is the command formula:

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find /path/to/starting/directory/ -type d -name "directory_to_delete" -exec rm -rf {} \;

For example, if we wanted to delete all node_modules directories within the path /projects/javascript/, we would run:

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find /projects/javascript/ -type d -name "node_modules" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Note:

Sometimes the output says:

find: ./node_modules: No such file or directory

But the command should still work.

If you look closely, we’re really just executing a command against all node_modules directories in the /projects/javascript/ directory (rm -rf). This command can be modified to execute other commands against all node_modules directories, but that is out of the scope of this post :)

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