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Terminal bash commands stopped working
I was trying to install some stuff for scala development on my MAC, and probably I managed broke the shell/terminal while I was mindlessly running some scripts that I don't know.
Now when I start the ...
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extract to a new folder with spl name
working on OS X 10.8.3, have part of what I want working, hoping for help with the rest
#!/bin/bash
# script accepts a path to base dir - base path to extract
# also accepts second param - archive ...
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Run script on networked user login
The computer lab is running 10.8. I would like to run a script when networked users login. As far as I can tell my choices are:
launchd agents - Not meant for this. On the launchd.plist man page it ...
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Find/Unrar/Delete Script
I'm a PC convert, and quite novice when it comes to shell/bash scripting, but I really want to learn/understand more.
My need: I need to be able to scan a folder, find any .rar files, extract the ...
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Is there a Mac OSX equivalent of zenity?
I'm porting some simple X windows/bash scripts to Mac OSX, but I cannot find a build of Zenity (a Gnome app for basic GUI dialogs) for OSX. Is there some other command line driven dialog utility I can ...
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“sed” or “awk” launched on opening terminal window
At some point, I've noticed strange behavior of Terminal app - now on opening new window i get this as normal:
Last login: Tue Nov 27 11:54:21 on ttys001
but can't see the "~" sign afterwards and ...
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Login hook to test if this is first login
I want to know if a login hook runs before or after a home directory is created in /Users during the first time a user logs in. If the home directory is created before the login hook runs, then I want ...
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logger vs syslog -s
What exactly is the difference between using logger and syslog -s? According to its manpage, logger provides interface to the system log module, but I can't really see the point given that syslog(1) ...
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Set terminal window title in a script
I would like to change the entire title of the terminal window for a particular bash script. I googled out but I couldn't find much more than this suggestion:
printf "\e]0;My Custom Title\a"
After ...
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How do I execute a bash script that requires root privileges?
I have this script lines from my ISP:
sudo bash
echo "plugin L2TP.ppp">>/etc/ppp/options
echo "l2tpnoipsec">>/etc/ppp/options
It works if I paste line by line into Terminal.
I want to ...
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Opening a terminal window to a specific directory from a bash script
How can I write a bash script in Mac OS X that opens a Terminal window in a specific directory? I'd assume something like:
open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
But that does nothing (maybe ...
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Why won't wget work with cron?
I've been using the bashpodder script (http://lincgeek.org/bashpodder/) recently, and while the script works beautifully when I use it in the command line, the crontab I created for it doesn't work at ...
