How to tell what shell is running from command line?

If I do sudo zsh, I can tell I am in zsh by examining ps -ef Is there an easier way? echo $SHELL says it's /bin/sh, because $SHELL is always the default shell, not necessarily the shell that's actually running.

Tool to combine Pages documents?

Every new semester I have to paste the same updated information about my office hours, lecture schedule etc into syllabi (in Apple Pages docs) that have a lot of unchanged information about the courses. I would like to have split these …

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Tail terminal command is insanely slow

The tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file). EXAMPLE: $ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt takes 10+ minutes, whereas $ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt is basically instantaneous. My wor…

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Tail terminal command is insanely slow

The tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file). EXAMPLE: $ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt takes 10+ minutes, whereas $ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt is basically instantaneous. My wor…

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Many apps are 'quitting unexpectedly' and showing Crashing on exception: CGSSetSurfaceColorSpace failed with 1000

System: M1 Max, Monterey 12.1 Situation: Cannot open Anki.app, Calibre epub reader or ColorSync Utility as they all 'quit unexpectedly.' The common error is CGSSetSurfaceColorSpace failed with 1000 across all three apps, and cannot reso…